Box 23
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Cricket Match, Field Day, 1906
File — Box: 23, Folder: 359
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A359. August 18, 1906. Image depicts men playing their field positions and a batter in place. A few spectators look on from beneath trees on the sideline on the right, barely visible. The field is large and well maintained. Residential houses are visible In the background. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces and events, in...
Dates:
1906
Bancroft Memorial Library, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 341
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A341. September 6, 1905. Image depicts a single-story stone building with an arched doorway, situated on a street corner. It is partially hidden by trees. 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. On the left are marble sculptures that include an...
Dates:
1905
Hopedale House, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 343
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A343. September 8, 1905. Image depicts a four-story wooden boarding house surrounded by other single- and multiple-story residences. The building has one large and two smaller chimneys and a lightning rod. Shutters are installed at all windows. A front porch runs the length of the building and a climbing vine provides shade. A sign "Hopedale House" can be seen above the porch roof. A fire escape is visible on the left-hand end of the building. Trees are planted between buildings...
Dates:
1905
Hopedale House, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 344
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A344. September 8, 1905. Image depicts a four-story wooden boarding house surrounded by other single- and multiple-story residences. The building has one large and two smaller chimneys and a lightning rod. Shutters are installed at all windows. A front porch runs the length of the building and a climbing vine provides shade. A sign "Hopedale House" is barely visible above the porch roof. A fire escape is visible on the left-hand end of the building. Trees are planted between...
Dates:
1905
Housing in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 347
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A347. September 29, 1905. Image depicts a group of two-story brick buildings designed to accommodate two or more families. The buildings' features include multiple chimneys, shutters at each window, and lawns. An open field is in the foreground. Prospect Heights was built as housing for Draper Company employees, but most houses in Prospect Heights were brick, as opposed to the wooden housing found in Hopedale, Massachusetts The houses are believed to have been designed by Peabody...
Dates:
1905
Houses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 349
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A349. September 29, 1905. Image depicts a two- story brick building designed to accommodate multiple families. The building is the end unit of what is probably a string of attached townhouses. A street lamp and stone wall are in view along the street. Building features include chimneys and shutters at each window, and some Tudor-style timbers decorating the gable. The building has a small lawn that reaches to the sidewalk in front. Prospect Heights was built as housing for Draper...
Dates:
1905
Two houses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, 1905
File — Box: 23, Folder: 350
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A350. September 29, 1905. Image depicts two two-story brick buildings designed to accommodate two or more families. Building features include chimneys and shutters at each window. Each residence has a small lawn that reaches to the sidewalk in front. A grassy field is in the foreground view. The house on the left is a two-family; the house on the right appears to be a multiple- family. Glimpses of similar housing can be seen behind these units. Prospect Heights was built as...
Dates:
1905
Town Hall, 1906
File — Box: 23, Folder: 351
Scope and Contents
Negative no.A351. May 31, 1906. Image depicts a three-story stone building situated on a street corner. The building was designed by architect Fred Swasey of Milford and built in 1886; it appears to be in the Romanesque style, somewhat similar to that of H. H. Richardson. The building has two chimneys and a gabled roof with decorative ironwork running along the upper edge. There are three entrances at the front; two women and one man pose in front of the entrance between windows that read...
Dates:
1906