Box 12

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Photographs of water turbines, canal construction and repair, flooding from spring runoff (freshets), ice dams, various buildings in the Lawrence, Massachusetts, area. Also included are photographs of scenery, family groups, houses, and othe buildings. Hurricane and tornado damage are also pictured.

Boxes 1 through 10 of this collection are prints made from the glass plate negatives in Collection 6633 GPN.

Scope and Contents Photographed by Fred M. Smith, 27 Tremont Row,Boston, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1880. Image depicts the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence, Mass., showing six-story brick building with two fire escapes; the word Pemberton is in stone on the short side of the building on the right. A railroad car and railroad tracks are on the right next to the canal. Building is surrounded by other brick mill buildings; the old Washington Mills can be seen on the far right. This would be the mill built after...

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No. 2 Essex Company North Canal [Lawrence] July 27, 1902. View looking upstream showing general arrangement of enlarging mouth pieces at sluiceways, entrance to canal. Surface of water at about (20.5)

Format: black and white photograph.

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Lawrence Dam looking north.

Format: black and white photograph.

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View reversed. Lawrence?

Format: black and white photograph.

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Whitney & Son, Cambridge [Mass.] photographer. Gelatin silver print, [after 1906]. Image depicts the Longfellow Bridge, connecting Boston to Cambridge, Mass., from the Boston side. The bridge was known as the Cambridge Bridge until 1927 when it was renamed the Longfellow Bridge. 24.25 x 18.5 cm. (w/out mount); 35 x 27.25 cm. (w/mount).

Format: black and white photograph.

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Den Rock, Lawrence, Mass.

Format: black and white photograph.

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Alma mater of Dr. R.J. Hyde, Esq.

Format: black and white photograph.

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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts frozen falls at the Essex Company dam in Lawrence, Mass., March 3, 1905. Image actually made of two prints joined together. See Item 9, in this folder, for a better print taken at a slightly different angle. 29.25 x 11 cm. (w/out mount); 40.5 x 22 cm. (w/mount).

Format: black and white photograph.

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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts frozen falls at the Essex Company dam in Lawrence, Mass., March 3, 1905. Image actually made of two prints joined together. See Item 8, in this folder, for another print (not as clear) taken at a slightly different angle. 30 x 11 cm. (w/out mount); 40.5 x 21.5 cm. (w/mount).

Format: black and white photograph.