Item 175: Bancroft Parkway

Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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 Item 171 and Item 172, in this folder, for other views of houses on Bancroft Parkway, and Item 166, in this folder, for a view of the back yards of the houses on Bancroft Parkway. See Item 152, in this folder, for a nearly identical image. 25 x 20.25 cm.