Box 12

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B150. May 9, 1903. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing the edge of a residential house on the right and a complex of buildings in the background, two of which are connected by a covered walkway (seen in the center of the photo). Hopedale Street and the street perpendicular to it in the foreground are both unpaved but have sidewalks. Several trees line Hopedale Street. See Item 151, in this...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B151. May 9, 1903. Image depicts a view of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing a residential house on the left, and what may be a barn building of some sort on the right. In the background on the far right is a brick building that is part of the Draper Company complex. Attached to the barn building is a tall tower with a bell at the top; this may be the old fire tower referred to in the caption on the reverse of...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B154. Image depicts a single-story stone building with an arched doorway and windows. 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 constructed of Milford granite, and was modeled after Merton College Chapel at Oxford. The marble sculptures and fountain seen in Box 3, Folder 2, Item 352 have apparently...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B156. May 9, 1903. Image depicts a view of the side of Henry Patrick's store in Hopedale, Massachusetts The building is a two-story clapboard, with shutters at some windows and a chimney in the rear. A horse-drawn wagon has been backed up to the door and is loaded with goods; another horse-drawn wagon carrying barrels is in the center of the image. The store was located on the west side of Hopedale Street; the front view of the store would be to...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B159. Image depicts part of the west side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, showing a small wooden clapboard house on the right, with shutters and curtains at the windows. In the center background is a small, one-story building that is probably the railroad depot. Railroad cars can be seen behind it. To the left is a horse-drawn carriage and two other horses probably hooked to wagons. What appears to be smoke in the air is probably...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B160. May 12, 1903. Image depicts a three-story stone building situated on the corner of Hopedale Street (in front of the building) and another, unknown street on the right. The building was designed by architect Fred Swasey of Milford and built in 1886; note the cornerstone with the phrase "anno domini" and the date in Roman numerals. The building appears to be in the Romanesque style, somewhat similar to that of H. H. Richardson. The building...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B164. May 12, 1903. Image depicts the east side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, between Social and Union streets. It is unclear if Hopedale Street is the unpaved street in the foreground, or if it is the side street on which a number of houses are visible. These houses are substantial two-story wood clapboard buildings; another two-story wood clapboard house is on the right side of the side street. Some open ground or lawn separates...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B165. Image depicts a view of the part of the east side of Hopedale Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts, between Social & Union streets. Two residential, wooden clapboard buildings can be seen, with glimpses of a few other houses in the background. Hopedale Street (which is the cross street in this view) is lined with trees. The pole with the sign on it (which cannot be read from this angle) is at the beginning of the Draper Company complex; see...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...