Bancroft Parkway

Negative no.A175. 1901-1916. Image depicts a view of Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts Substantial two-story, wooden clapboard houses line the unpaved road. Electric poles can be seen on the left-hand side of the road. Most of the houses have two chimneys and are duplexes, as Hopedale housing built for Draper Company employees was generally not larger than a duplex. See Negative 171 and Negative 172, in this box, for other views of houses on Bancroft Parkway, and Negative 166, also in this box, for a view of the back yards of the houses on Bancroft Parkway. See Box 13, Negative 152 for a nearly identical image. 5 x 7 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 2, Folder 2, Item 175 for print of this negative.