Hopedale Street (west side) showing houses, 1903

Negative no.B136. May 7, 1903. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing two residential houses on the left, behind which are Draper Company buildings. Both houses are two-story wooden clapboard buildings with shutters at all the windows; the house nearer the center has an open front porch. Behind the two houses on the right is a three-story building with a tall smokestack, part of the Draper Company complex. The streets are unpaved, but Hopedale Street is lined with trees. Trolley tracks run along Hopedale Street. The unknown cross street has a sidewalk. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. See Negative 135, in this box, for a view of the buildings on the street to the right of what is shown in this image. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 4, Item 136 for print of this negative. See also, Collection 6612 P, Box 17, Folder 3, Item 136 for print of this negative.