Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Merchants and Miners Wharf -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Merchants and Miners Wharf -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Merchants and Miners Wharf -
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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. - Long wharf, two three-masted boats, a steam boat and a smaller sail boat, caption: Merchants and Miners Wharf from rear window of 370 Atlantic Ave. Boston, The Geo. F. Newell Mfg Co. (Pier used by Baltimore & Norfolk ships) -
