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Scope and Contents Negative no.B2259. August 9, 1919. Image depicts groups of men, women, and children gathering at the baseball field for the event, most likely arranged by the Draper Corporation. Everyone is dressed in "Sunday best" and a few children in the right foreground are carrying balloons. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces and company events, in addition...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B2260. August [9], 1919. Image depicts groups of men, women, and children gathering at the baseball field for the event, most likely arranged by the Draper Corporation. Everyone is dressed in "Sunday best." Four male runners have begun the race, starting in the left center background (shallow left field). Since the field is encircled with poles and rope, the runners apparently run a circuit around the field for a mile. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B2261. August 9, 1919. Image depicts a group of 36 men posed in an outside setting. Some are dressed in police (?) uniforms, some in suits and ties, and some in white shirts and ties. Each is wearing a ribbon or medal, signifying receipt of an honor or award. The ribbons read in part "Hopedale Annual Field Day Draper Corporation." The Draper Corporation hosted annual Field Days for its employees every August. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 1, Item 2261 for print...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B2266. September 1919. Image depicts the Adin Ballou House on Dutcher Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts The house is a two-story wooden house with two chimneys, and both front and back doors. A wrap-around porch and set of steps join the front entry with a walkway to the sidewalk and street. Shrubs and climbing vines surround the porch and house. Ballou (1803-1890) was a prominent proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism, and the founder (in 1842) of the Hopedale...

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Negative no.B2267. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house plus attic. Shutters are at each window and a wrap-around porch and set of steps join the front entry with a walkway to the sidewalk and street. Shrubs and climbing vines surround the porch and house. No information could be found about who Dr. Osborn (or Osborne) was. Original photograph by the Draper Corporation. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 1, Item 2267 for print of this negative.

Scope and Contents Negative no.B2268. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with front porch and steps to front door. Corner view shows side of house with a set of back steps leading to a grassy yard. Other homes are in the background. These houses were built for Draper Corporation employees. Tenements in this context simply means employee housing and not the "slum" housing usually thought of in reference to the word tenements. Draper Company founders, brothers George and Ebenezer,...