Box 131

Scope and Contents Negative no.B83. Summer, 1902. Image depicts a bird's eye view of the area of Hopedale, Massachusetts, from Main to Dutcher streets, taken from a high vantage point, possibly from a Draper Company building. Image shows houses scattered throughout the area with trees interspersed. The distant background appears to be mostly trees. No factory buildings visible in this view. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 3, Item 83 for print of this...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B84. 1894-1900. Image depicts a four-story wooden clapboard house, with shutters at all the windows (a few are closed). A porch stretches across the entire front of the house with two sets of steps to the porch. There is a bay window on the left side, with a back porch beyond it. A sign "Park House" sits above the front porch roof. This is most likely a Draper Company boardinghouse, and looks somewhat similar to Hopedale House. There is a small lawn in front and some new trees...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B91. ca. 1903. Image depicts an interior view of the Bancroft Memorial Library in Hopedale, Massachusetts A large, circular wooden desk sits in the center, behind which are rows of wooden bookcases, filled with books. Two card catalogs sit on either side of the room. Wooden railings can be seen on each side (sectioning off other rooms?), and the room has wooden arches and columns. There is a large hanging chandelier with eight lamps, plus wall sconces on the columns. The library...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B99. 1905? Image depicts a group of two-story brick buildings (although some seem to have at least one floor partially below ground) designed to accommodate two or more families. The buildings' features include multiple chimneys, shutters at each window, and lawns. An open field is in the foreground. There are three children barely visible in the road on the right, and hanging laundry on a clothesline on the left. Prospect Heights was built as housing for Draper Company...