Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Ellen Curtis's Saw Mill -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Ellen Curtiss Saw Mill -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Ellen Curtis's Saw Mill -
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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. - Two men, horse, wagon, wooden mill buildings in background and logs floating in water in foreground, caption: Ellen Curtis's saw mill operated by Hamlet Wight near Medfield Junction, Mass. -
