Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Panorama of West Newton -

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Panorama of West Newton -

Newell family -- Portraits - Newton (Mass.) -- History -- Pictorial works -

Description ca. 225 photos. (in album). - Note Majority of photographs of West Newton with handwritten captions describing photographs - The Newell family moved from Colrain, Massachusetts to West Newton, leaving their farming roots to become successful merchants, inventors, and manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The family photograph album shows family members, their houses (interior, exterior and grounds), family homesteads, farms, mills, views from their Boston offices, and their West Newton neighborhood. - Train tracks and overpass, houses, churches and public buildings of the village center with hills in background, caption: Panorama of West Newton from Belfry of Congregational Church, Prospect Hill, Waltham in background, new Unitarian Church at corner of Highland St., City Hall in back at corner of Cherry St., old Congregational Church with clock, old Pierce School, new Police Station, old Unitarian Church now Players Hall and on Sundays is a Christian Science Church, Highland St. overpass over B & A R R [note house at corner of Highland & Davis Sts. is where Margaret Merchant lived when a child] - Page 101 -

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