Photographs of Concord, Mass. (homes and bridges, streetscapes and landscape views, river, boating and bridge views, and several views of "Tower's Excursion" train, Boston to Pasadena Calif., ca. 1886). It is unclear whether Fred A. Tower was the photographer or merely the owner of the negatives in the collection. (He would have been only about 15 years old when the "Tower's Excursion" images were made). His father, Alonzo Tower (organizer of several...

Photographs primarily of Concord, Mass., & its residents, taken no earlier than 1880 to 1903. Few images in the collection are dated or precisely dateable; those that are date from the late 1880s on. The collection includes some earlier images by other photographers rephotographed by Hosmer. (The date span of the collection reflects the period of Hosmer's work, not the original date of creation of the photographs rephotographed by Hosmer.). Most...

Photographs of Concord, Mass. (houses and buildings, street and area views, cemeteries, landscape views, North Bridge views) taken by E.F. Worcester between about 1900 and about 1915; also, five (earlier?) West Concord photographs not taken by Worcester but, long stored with Worcester negatives. Many of the images included among the negatives were used in Worcester's Concord and Lexington ... and in Swayne's The Story of Concord.