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Scope and Contents Negative no.B170. May 12, 1903. Image depicts a two-story house with attic, shutters at the windows, and a front porch that stretches the length of the house. A porte-cochere (carriage porch) is barely visible on the left; it appears to be an extension of the porch. The house is set back from Hopedale Street (in the foreground) behind a row of bushes and some lawn. Two trees flank Hopedale Street in front of the house. This is the house in which Charles and Lura Day lived; she was the...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B173. May 13, 1903. Image depicts a three-story wood clapboard house with a mansard roof, a porch that stretches the length of the front of the house and around the corner, and a small one-story extension with a bay window in the right rear. A balustrade runs around the edge of the front porch roof and of the roof over the extension. The house sits at the corner of Hopedale and Draper streets; it originally belonged to George and Hannah Draper and then to their daughter and...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B175. Image depicts a stone church with a tower in front (hidden behind trees), and an extension to the right. Trees and grass surround the church. The church is located at 65 Hopedale Street; the unpaved street can be seen in the foreground. The parish was formed October 2, 1867. The church building was erected through the generosity of Eben S. Draper and George Albert Draper in memory of their father and mother. Dedication services for the church edifice were held on September...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B177. May 16, 1903. Image depicts a view of the Draper Company shop, although it is unknown if this is the temple shop or another department of the company. The building is a wood clapboard building, and appears to be four stories tall. A covered walkway on the left connects it to a brick building seen on the far left. A horse hooked to an empty buggy stands on tree- shaded Hopedale Street. Grass and open space is in the foreground. The Draper Company manufactured textile...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B178. May 16, 1903. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing the Draper Company office. It is possible the two-story brick building in the center is the office, but it is unclear; the two-story building directly behind it with the one-story extension to the left may all be part of the office. Both buildings have striped awnings on some of the windows. Larger factory buildings can be seen behind in the background on both sides....

Scope and Contents Negative no.B179. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing a number of Draper Company buildings. There is a one-story wooden clapboard building with a tower in the center; the tower is hidden behind trees. In the background are several three- and four-story brick buildings, all part of the Draper Company complex. The sign on the pole in front of the wooden clapboard building reads: "Private Property. Do No Drive In. Very Dangerous." The...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B180. May 16, 1903. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, between Social and Union streets. Several residential houses can be seen, partially hidden by the trees lining Hopedale Street. Behind them on the right can be seen a three-story building belonging to the Draper Company. The streets are unpaved but have sidewalks. Some open space with grass is in the foreground. See Box 134, Negative 164 for a view of the east side of Hopedale...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B181. May 28, 1903. Image depicts a view of a chain warper manufactured by the Draper Company of Hopedale, Massachusetts The warper has been photographed against a sheet to set it off from other machinery on the floor. A warper is any machine for preparing and arranging the yarns intended for the warp of a fabric. A ball warper, for instance, is a machine for winding off yarn from a large number of packages and coiling it as a loose rope into a ball. A chain warp is a warp...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B182. May 28, 1903. Image depicts a view of a chain warper manufactured by the Draper Company of Hopedale, Massachusetts The warper has been photographed against a sheet to set it off from other machinery on the floor. A warper is any machine for preparing and arranging the yarns intended for the warp of a fabric. A ball warper, for instance, is a machine for winding off yarn from a large number of packages and coiling it as a loose rope into a ball. A chain warp is a warp...