1886-87
85M-01-314-Z-D-0105
GUSN-194162
This album includes twenty-three portraits and landscapes, including Riedesel Avenue and Brewster Street in Cambridge, Mass.; Newton Lower Falls; and the dam at Watertown, Mass.
portraits
interior spaces
landscapes (environments)
waterfalls (natural bodies of water)
dams
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
album number 41-B
1 photograph album; 10 x 12 1/2 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.041B
Gift
Gift of Miss Lois Lilley Howe
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Newton Lower Falls (Newton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts) [part of inhabited place]
Watertown (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Attributed to Howe, Lois Lilley, 1864-1964 (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Cambridge Photographic Club (Cambridge, Mass.)
Item
85M-01-314-Z-D-0105
This is one of six albums documenting the work of members in 1885, 1886-87, 1889, 1893, 1894, and 1895. This is an outstanding record of the viewpoints and techniques typical of amateur photographers of the period. The albums are also intersting for viewing architectural subjects. Individual photographers are unfortunately unidentified. However, it is believed that the 1885 volume may represent the work of Lois Lilley Howe, better known as the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture. Howe was was also an amateur photographer. (Information supplied by Charles Sullivan, Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission). Also includes " A Short history of the Old Cambridge Photographic Club" by James A. Wells, 1903.
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