Box 130

Scope and Contents Negative no.B61. Image depicts a Draper Company horse posed outside the same stone building (on the right) seen in Box 129, Negative 50. The horse is black (or dark colored); posed next to him is a dark-haired man wearing dark pants with suspenders, a white shirt and a very large tie. The horse is probably the same one seen in Box 129, Negative 51 and Negative 58. The man is the same one as the man seen on the right in Box 129, Negative 50. The horse is probably one of the horses owned by...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B62-A. Image depicts a Draper Company horse posed outside the same stone building seen in Box 129, Negative 50. The horse is black (or dark colored); his rein is being held by a man on the left, wearing a white shirt and white pants. He holds his straw hat in his right hand, possibly to attract the horse's attention so the horse will pose with his head up. The man has a mustache but does not appear to be either of the two men seen in Box 129, Negative 50, however, both this man...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B67-A. Image depicts Ballou Park, sometimes referred to as Adin Ballou Park, showing flowering trees, bushes, park benches (on either side of the statue and in the left background), and a bronze statue of Adin Ballou, the founder of the Hopedale Community. The statue was unveiled in October 1900 and is located on the Ballou property; it was the gift of Gen. W. F. Draper. In 1900 the Ballou house was moved from this site and the park established. In the foreground is an unpaved...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B68. Image depicts one man holding the reins of two horses, presumed to be Draper Company horses. Both horses are black or dark colored. The man wears a vest, tie and hat; he has a mustache and dark curly hair. He is probably a cart or wagon driver for Draper. The stone building on the right is unidentified but is possibly the Bancroft Memorial Library. Several residential buildings can be seen in the background. This man can also be seen in Box 129, Negative 50 and Negative 61,...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B72. 1894-1900. Image depicts the Howard W. Bracken House in Hopedale, Massachusetts, also known as the Lilla (Bancroft) Bracken Pratt House. The house is a substantial two-and-a-half story wood clapboard building with an extension on the right, two visible chimneys, shutters at all the windows, and a front porch that stretches the length of the front and extends on either side. Howard W. Bracken was the husband of Lilla Bancroft and the son-in- law of Joseph and Sylvia Bancroft....

Scope and Contents Negative no.B77. 1898-1900. Image depicts a stone building with an arched doorway and windows. Viewed from this angle, the library appears to have two floors, with the lower floor partially underground. This is a different view than that seen in Box 23, Negative 352, which shows the fountain at the far left (not seen here). The library was donated to the town in 1898 by Joseph Bancroft, a Draper Company executive, in memory of his wife, Sylvia. The building was designed by Boston architect...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B78. 1898-1900. Image depicts a stone building with an arched doorway and windows. Viewed from this angle, the library appears to have two floors, with the lower floor partially underground. The fountain seen in Box 23, Negative 352 is not visible here and may not have yet been installed. The library was donated to the town in 1898 by Joseph Bancroft, a Draper Company executive, in memory of his wife, Sylvia. The building was designed by Boston architect C. Howard Walker. It is...