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1) The Herbert Wendell Gleason negatives in the Concord Free Public Library: odyssey of a collection
Author
Publisher
E. Carolina University, c1999]
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hometown Websmith
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Article is about the photographer Herbert Wendell Gleason, the Herbert Wendell Gleason collection of over 5,000 glass plate and film negatives in the Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library, and Pam Murray's responsibilities and research as Processing Archivist for the collection. Primarily funded from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Author
Pub. Date
1901
Language
None
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1885
Language
None
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
1899
Language
None
Description
Glass plate & film negatives (1899-1937) bearing Concord, Mass. images. Subjects: geographical features & landscape views; Walden Pond; Thoreau-related sites; weather phenomena; plant & animal life; buildings (incl. interiors); old roads & paths; railroad; bridges; Concord- & Thoreau-related art & artifacts; people. A few photos. of places other than Concord included.
Author
Pub. Date
1900
Language
None
Description
50 photographs of Concord, Mass., 12 of Bedford, Billerica, & Woburn, & seven unidentified locations, taken between about 1900 & 1906. Date span of collection based on dated album of Castle Concord prints. Collection includes 36 images of house & building exteriors & grounds in Concord (among them multiple images of some), 8 of historic sites, monuments, & markers (North Bridge area, Battle Lawn area, & Walden Pond), & 6 cemetery & grave shots (of...
Author
Pub. Date
1890
Language
None
Description
17 gelatin dry plate glass photonegatives & 1 glass slide, positive image. 16 are of Concord views; 2 are of Wayside Inn in Sudbury. Some Concord views show buildings decorated with bunting and parade scenes for Apr. 19, 1900 celebration of the Battle of Concord. Several views are images of the burning of the First Parish in 1900, & the demolition of the Middlesex Hotel in the same year. Ruth Wheeler was the owner, not the photographer of the images...
Author
Pub. Date
1880
Language
None
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
1880
Language
None
Description
Photographs of Concord, Mass. & its residents; taken between about 1880 & 1902. Few images in collection are dated or precisely dateable. Some earlier images by other photographers, rephotographed by Munroe, are included. (Date span of collection reflects period of Munroe's work, not the dates of creation of photographs rephotographed by Munroe.) Portraits include images of about 35 individuals & some of family or other groups as well. Photographs...
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