Newton Photographs Collection. 1860-1987, 1930-1979. Arts and Music, Biography, Storms, Transportation, Voice of Women, YMCA
(Mixed Material)

Persons identified in photographs: Ruth Lenson, Diana Green, Barbara Levy, Robert Kaufman, Beverly Freedman, Herb Pomeroy, Anita Greenbaum. Louise Bruyn, Joan Minkoff, Helen Caldecott, Kathy Knight, Mae Takunagaki, Pat Simon, Harriet Yarrow, Bernard Lown, William Schofield, Marshall Sklare, Joe Selame, John W. Stokes, Roland S. Barth, Wendell Yeo, Jeanne Weinreb, Leroy D. Vandam, Melvin Mark, Freda Rebelsky, Nathan Fineberg, Maxine Kumin, Madeleine Kamman, Rose Moss, Josephine Brewer, Louis Lowy, Caryl Rivers, William Newman, Abigail Hamblen, Edward Wagennecht, Elinor Selame, Harry L. Walen, Riva Loew, Milton D. Rubin, Louis Ruchames, Rosalind Smith, Henry Lasker, Judith Liberman, John R. Swanton, Blanche Josephson, Edward C. Berkeley, George Bower, John Brush, John D. Montgomery, Paul Roman, Saul B. Cohen, Alexander Altman, Roger Hazelton, Anne K. Garland, Louise Swanton, Lilli Ann Rosenberg, Harold S. Rice, Suzanne Schlossberg, Nancy Freeman, Shirley Fink, Mary Stockrocki, Malinda Hardaway, Fran G. Dana, Roy Pearson, Max L. Stackhouse, Harry Crosby, Henry Brown, Laura G. Gilbert, Nancy Schon, Eleanor Rubin, Martin Feldstein, Shirlee Newman, Walter Muelder, Jane B. MacIntire, George Stephen, Lillian Ambrosino, Eleanor Boylan, Kenneth A. Arndt, Henry Rosovsky, Jean Dietz, Beatrice E. Lewis, Yosef H. Yerushalmi, John R. Prescott, Edwin O. Childs, Ulysses G. Wheeler, Alfred W. Dickinson, Nathaniel T. Allen, Henry M. Goldman, Willard Johnson, Carole Oles, Mabel McNeil Hagen, Arthur Polonsky, Daniel Lerner, Demetrius Iatridis, Annie Plummer Corey, George Ellis Allen, Wylie Sypher, Samuel A. Biggin, Shepard Herman, Samuel Francis Smith memorial stone, James Streeter, Morton Rubin, Lucy Sypher, Theodore R. Lockwood, Harold A. Wooster, Victor L. Dennis, Bill Britt, Virginia Tashjian, Melvil Dewey, Joseph Ward, Prudence Bird Ward, William Claflin, Vane A. Sarafian, Thomas Weston, Eunice Pratt Plimpton.

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Collection consists of black and white photographs, color photographs, newspaper clippings, caricatures, postcards and book illustrations.

Newton Photographs Collection : Arts and Music, Biography, Storms, Transportation, Voice of Women, YMCA. Special Collections, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA.

Newton Free Library (330 Homer St., Newton, MA 02459), Special Collections.

Arts and Music - photographs of the Newton Symphony Orchestra, Newton Choral Society, a sculpture class at the Newton Arts Center Open House on September 16, 1979, Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra performing at an Arts in the Parks concert. Biography - photographs of notable Newton residents or figures of importance to the City of Newton: authors, musicians, educators, entrepreneurs, politicians, artists, etc. (See Notes for individual names.) Storms - photographs of the aftermath of the September, 1938 hurricane: damaged houses and uprooted trees; photographs of the days following the blizzard of February, 1978: people shoveling, snow blowing, skiing, some views of Newton Corner, Centre Street, Newton Free Library, the Adams Street house of the Cummings family, Langley Road, Beacon Street, Maple Park in Newton Centre. Transportation - panoramic view of the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway fleet of 1930 to 1936 buses with gas pump; train station (possibly Newtonville) with waiting horse-drawn wagon and carriages; view of Centre Street looking north from the Newton Corner train depot; early automobile accident; Boston & Albany Railroad train and tracks from Church Street Bridge; unhitched wagons in front of P. A. Murray & Company, carriage builders; Newton Boulevard and Norumbega railway cars. Voice of Women - photographs of members at meetings of the peace and human rights organization in the 1970s. YMCA - Postcards of YMCA tents set up in the Watertown Arsenal (Watertown, Massachusetts) to provide leisure reading and a mail box for soldiers during World War I, photographs of the construction site of the YMCA (276 Church Street, Newton) with horses, wagons, and workers clearing the lot around 1900.

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