Box 2

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A182. 1901-1916. Image depicts a view of two houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts The house in the center is a substantial two-and-a-half-story wood-shingled residence, with two entrances on the front porch and a bay window on the side. A walkway leads to a set of steps at the rear of the house as well. All the windows have shutters. This house is probably the one that appears in Box 2, Folder 2, Item 176. The house in the right...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A183. 1901-1916. Image depicts a view of the back yards of the houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts Substantial two-story wood-shingled houses line the unpaved road on both sides. Most of the houses have two chimneys and are most likely duplexes, as Hopedale housing for Draper employees was generally not larger than a duplex. The unpaved road is quite narrow and each house has a free-standing clothesline in the yard (several have...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A184. 1901-1916. Image depicts a view of a row of houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts All are substantial, two-and-a-half-story wood-shingled houses done in different architectural styles. The houses on the left-hand side of the street have trees and bushes planted and there is a paved sidewalk on that side of the street; those houses may have been constructed before the right-hand side of the street. The sidewalk on the...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A186. 1903- 1906. Image depicts a four-story wooden boarding house. The building has three chimneys visible from this angle and a lightning rod. Shutters have been installed at some of the windows, but the far left side appears to be still under construction. No windows or shutters have been installed on that side, and there are two ladders leaning against the porch roof. (Notes in the accession folder indicate the boardinghouse was "doubled"...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A188. ca. 1900. Image depicts a view of the Adin Ballou house in Hopedale, Massachusetts, a two-story wooden clapboard building with two brick chimneys and shutters on some of the windows. A one-story extension of the house is at the back (or the back portion of the house was constructed as one story). There is a picket fence running parallel to the sidewalk from one side of the house. Ballou (1803-1890) was a prominent proponent of pacifism,...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A190. 1903- 1906. Image depicts a view of a marble bust of George Draper, set on a wooden pedestal. It is not known exactly where this bust was placed (possibly somewhere in the Draper Company offices or plant), but it has been set into a corner of a room and is blocked off by a curved railing to protect it. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating the integrated, planned community of...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A198. 1903-1906. Image depicts a bronze marker placed at the corner of an unknown street and Dutcher Street. The marker reads: "Upton 4 1/2 miles" at the top and " This Street Presented to the Town of Hopedale by William F. Draper [date illegible]" at the base. Upton, Massachusetts, is a town located northwest of Hopedale. Dutcher Street is probably the larger, unpaved street on the right, on which several houses and electric poles are located. A...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A199. ca. 1900. Image depicts a view of the Adin Ballou house in Hopedale, Massachusetts, a two-story wooden clapboard building with a brick chimney and shutters on some of the windows. The house sits on a corner of Peace and Hopedale streets, with a tree right on the corner. Another house can be seen to the right behind it. Ballou (1803-1890) was a prominent proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism, and the founder (in 1842) of the...

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A202. 1903-1906. Image depicts a long view across Hopedale Pond, showing the Draper Company complex at the far end of the pond in the background (with two smoking chimneys). Some houses are visible to the left of the complex and a couple to the right, but most of this image consists of the pond. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 25 x 20.25 cm.

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A204. 1903- 1906. Image depicts a view of Hopedale Park, which appears to be a fairly barren stretch of land. There are some low stone walls running through the park in the background and some post-and-wire fences off to the right. Two houses can be seen in the left background. A four-story house (possibly a boardinghouse?) can be seen in the right foreground with wood trim decorative elements, shutters at every window, and an open front porch....