Massachusetts

Description

This subseries includes approximately X glass plate, acetate and nitrate negatives of cities, towns, and landscapes throughout Massachusetts. About half of the X negatives in the subseries are dedicated to Boston. The negatives depict a wide range of Boston scenes, such as the Boston Common, the Public Garden, and Tremont Street. There are images of the Boston State House, the Boston waterfront and wharfs, and churches throughout the city. The negatives also highlight natural events, such as blizzards and rainstorms in the city. Additionally, the negatives also give insight into everyday life in Boston in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the show individuals, families, tourists, businesspeople, merchants, and others working and living in the city.
i720 The negatives also include many towns and scenes from throughout Massachusetts. Cape cod, a popular region for tourism, fishing, boating, and agricultural, is heavily featured in the negatives. Images include of the Cape Cod Canal, windmills in Eastham, artists in Provincetown, and dunes in Orleans. Also featured are strawberry pickers and farms in Falmouth. The negatives also depict scenes from notable events, such as the town anniversary of Nahant in 1935, the fire on Plum Island, Newburyport in 1934, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and Topsfield Fair. The subseries also includes images of Salem Pioneer village, which was a created in celebration of the Salem Tercentennial in 1930. The village was built as a way for visitors to experience live in Salem in 1630.
The images also depict everyday scenes of smaller Massachusetts towns, such as Andover, Carlisle, Springfield, South Dartmouth, Watertown, Wayland, and others. These negatives include scenes of the ocean, schools, streets, industries, beaches, and weather events, such as snowstorms. Lastly, the negatives feature White Court, a home in Swampscott that was once visited by President Calvin Coolidge.
The original negative listing provided by Yankee Publishing includes Lowell, which were not found in the negatives.