Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Grounds of Plimpton and Newell Residence, 87 Chestnut St. West Newton, Massachusetts -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Grounds of Plimpton and Newell Residence, 87 Chestnut St. West Newton, Massachusetts -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Grounds of Plimpton and Newell Residence, 87 Chestnut St. West Newton, Massachusetts -
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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. - Wooden outbuilding, bench, wheelbarrow, lawn mower, watering can, pitchfork, rake, and shovel on the grounds of the W. P. Plimpton and Geo. F. Newell residence at 87 Chestnut St., West Newton, Mass., no caption - Page 81 -
