1920
General photography / Massachusetts / Charlestown
GUSN-380784
This mounted black-and-white photograph depicts a group of 33 men standing in front of a brick building with H.P. Hood & Sons signage, while 7 men ride in a covered motor coach behind them. A locamotive is visible in the background.
A stamp on the verso identifies the photographer as Stuart P. Ellis of Swamscott, Massachusetts.
dairy plants
dairy farms
farmers
souvenirs
manufacturing
black-and-white photography
souvenirs
1 mounted black-and-white photograph, 9.5 x 6 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2023
PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0040.001
This mounted 9.5 x 6 inch photograph depicts a group of 33 men standing in front of a brick building with H.P. Hood & Sons signage, while 7 men ride in a covered motor coach behind them. A locamotive is visible in the background.
Gift
Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Ellis, Stuart P. (Photographer)
black-and-white photography
souvenirs
Hood, Harvey Perley, 1823-1900
H.P. Hood & Sons
Photograph was rehoused for long term preservation.
Board has water stains and chipping at the edges.
Item
General photography / Massachusetts / Charlestown
Materials are in English
Harvey Perley Hood started his prosperous dairy business in 1846 in Derry, New Hampshire. In 1894, he moved operations to Charlestown, Massachusetts.
H.P. Hood and Sons company became the first milk company in New England to pasteurize milk, the first to use glass bottles in packaging and shipping milk, and the first to use the railroads effectively to market its products over long distances.
The company sold the Charlestown plant in 1995, and moved its headquarters to Lynnfield, Massachusetts. The 20-acre facility is being redeveloped [2025] as a mixed residential-commercial campus called the Hood Park. The preserved smokestack marked "Hoods Milk" at the former dairy facility remains a landmark.
HP Hood. (2025, May 20). In Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Hood
Morgan, Keith N. (n.d.). H.P. Hood and Sons Milk Company. SAH Archipedia. sah-archipedia.org
Osinski, Stan. (2024, June 7). Boston Mass., Vintage. [Facebook page] Retrieved November 19, 2025 from www.facebook.com/groups
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