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Mission House

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view across yard toward the mission house. Caption reads: "Old mission house built about 1740 by Reverend John Sergeant, first missionary to the S...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Avatar

Date: 08 04 1967
Description: Cover of "The Avatar," an underground newspaper, featuring a charcoal drawing of a woman, facing away, with a pack over her shoulder and a white and red fl...
Photograph

Lovers' Walk

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Description: A narrow rustic bridge crossing a pond in a wooded area known as Lovers' Walk. Caption reads: "Lovers' Walk, Near Mt. Pleasant House, Jefferson, Mass."
Photograph

Stone Bridge

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Description: View along quiet stream lined with trees and foliage toward an arched stone bridge with a guardrail.
Photograph

Norton Grinding Company

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Description: The New Bond Street Section of the Norton Grinding Company showing brick buildings, a road and fenced areas.
Photograph

Bancroft Tower

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Description: A view of Bancroft Tower, a Romanesque style stone building in open country, from the front drive.
Photograph

Yacht Club

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Description: View along shoreline toward the Falmouth Yacht Club. Boats are pulled ashore in the grass in the foreground.
Photograph

Golf Links

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Description: Elevated view of golf links featuring Squaw Island in the distance.
Photograph

The Newsboy Statue and Fountain

Date: 1895
Description: View of a statue and fountain in a grassy park depicting a boy selling a newspaper. Installed in 1895 and funded by Colonel William L. Brown, the statue c...
Photograph

Old Burial Hill

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Description: A view of Old Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Photograph

Shore of Pigeon Cove

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Description: Elevated view of shoreline of the town with fishing boats and homes.
Photograph

Stockbridge Town Hall

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Description: Front of town hall built in classical style with two-story columns. In front of the building is a large lawn with two rows of trees. In the background, m...
Photograph

Village Store

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Description: Village store with a large tree and a horse-drawn wagon in front. Caption reads: "Village Store, North Egremont, Mass."
Photograph

Clock Tower Church

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Description: Steep town street with closely set houses and a church with a clock tower.
Photograph

Mill Pond

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Description: Elevated view of mill pond and homes along the opposite shoreline. A person is standing at the shoreline in the foreground. Caption reads, "Mill Pond, Mill...
Photograph

Marblehead Bluff

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Description: Elevated view of village homes on the shores of the bay with docked fishing boats in the foreground. Caption reads, "Marblehead, Mass from Rockmere Point."
Photograph

Overlooking Marblehead

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Description: Elevated view looking down on the town with the bay and opposite shoreline in distance.
Photograph

Town Streets

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Description: Unpaved town streets with large wooden houses, horse-drawn carriages and a electric street light hanging above the streets.
Photograph

Pilgrim Meeting House

Date: 1887
Description: Historic re-creation painting of two Pilgrims approaching an old fort converted into their first meeting house. Painted by W.L. Williams.
Photograph

Plymouth Street

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Description: View of Plymouth Street looking towards the waterfront with large trees along the sidewalks.

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