Box 132

Scope and Contents Negative no.B107. ca. 1905. Image depicts the end of a row of two-story brick buildings on the left. Another row of buildings can be seen behind it. These buildings were designed to accommodate two or more families. The building features include multiple chimneys, shutters at each window (all the shutters are closed on the end house on the left), and small lawns in front. A freestanding clothesline can be seen in the side yard in the center. Note the multiple stairways in the rear of these...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B112. 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.B124. 1900-1903. Image depicts a view of the interior of an office in the Draper Company, possibly the Foundry Dept. office, given the wooden box stamped "Foundry Dept." under the table on the left. A rolltop desk in the center background is loaded with papers, ledgers, and cubbyholes, also filled with papers. A unit resembling a telephone sits at the edge of the desk, and may be a method of communicating to another office or the dept. floor. The desk to the right of the rolltop...