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	Search results for Historical    Refine your search Creator Photographer Unknown (5) A J Schillare Photogra... (3) Photographers Unknown (2) Charles E Graves, J Ed... (1) Devine & Hayes, Commer... (1) Show more... Date C 1885 (2) 1950, Compiled (1) 1969 (1) 5-sep-15 (1) C 1882 (1) Show more... Subject Williamsburg (Mass); C... (1) Williamsburg (Mass); C... (1) Williamsburg (Mass); C... (1) Williamsburg (Mass); D... (1) Williamsburg (Mass); D... (1) Show more... results 1-19 of 19 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Store, Grange Hall, Town Hall c.1910/2011 Williamsburg (Mass.); Williamsburg Grange; General stores--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; City halls--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Williamsburg Historical Society This pair of images shows a corner of Richard F. Burke's General Store at left (now the Williamsburg General Store); the Williamsburg Center School (now the Grange Hall) at center; and the old Town Hall... 2. Nash Hill Schoolhouse restoration diptych, c. 1971-86 Williamsburg (Mass.); Schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Rural schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg This pair of photographs shows the one-room schoolhouse on Nash Hill in Williamsburg, Mass., which was in use on its present site from 1786 until 1917. The pictures were taken during and after its restoration... 3. Dr. Charles Holmes Wheeler Scrapbook, Volume 5, Haydenville (Mass.) Records 1 Haydenville (Mass.); Williamsburg (Mass.); Haydenville Library; Publications- -Massachusetts- -Haydenville; Haydenille Library Association; Hayden, Anna I., 1835-1912); Hayden, Charles Rowley, 1845-1886; Hadley, Susan Bostwick, 1883-1972; Emrick, Robert Page, 1890-1982 Page 120b of the Haydenville Records 1 (9 inches w. x 11 1/2 inches h.; compiled 1950), Volume 5 of a larger series of scrapbooks created by resident Charles H. Wheeler, M.D. (1879-1955), this one chronicling... 4. Main Street in the center of Williamsburg, Mass., circa 1910 Williamsburg (Mass.); Trolley cars--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Temperance--Societies, etc.; Schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg This is a view northwestward along Main Street in the center of Williamsburg village, from the intersection of South Street and Main Street (which is now, in 2011, Route 9) toward the Meekins Library and... 5. Main Street in the center of Williamsburg, Mass., July 2011 Williamsburg (Mass.); Weber, Eric, 1948- This recent photograph of the center of the village of Williamsburg, Mass. contrasts with the one taken 101 years earlier from the same spot, seen elsewhere in this Digital Treasures collection. This image... 6. Mary Graves dowry list, 1830 Williamsburg (Mass.); Graves, Mary Dickinson, 1805-1881; Montague, John, 1796-1881; Graves, John, 1773-1843; Dowry--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; House furnishings--Massachusetts--Williamsburg. This is a handwritten list of the goods purchased for Mary Dickinson Graves of Williamsburg, probably by her father under her mother's direction, in preparation for her October 6, 1830 marriage to Deacon... 7. Jane and George Cheney, 1916 Williamsburg (Mass.); Disasters--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Disasters--Massachusetts--Northampton; Cheney, George, 1844-1918; Alvord, Jane Elizabeth, 1847-1922; Cheney, Phillip Donald, ?-1919; Graves, Charles Erastus, 1894-1988; Graves, Joseph Edwin, 1892-1969 George Cheney was one of the heroes of the May 16, 1874 Mill River Disaster that took many lives in Williamsburg and Northampton, Mass. Cheney, the caretaker of the huge reservoir dam that failed that... 8. Adelbert Bailey triptych Williamsburg (Mass.); Bailey, Adelbert, 1843-1932; Metcalf, Juliet, 1843-1933; United States--History--Civil War, 1816-1865--Veterans; Tintypes Adelbert Bailey was born in Amherst, Mass. and served in the Civil War as a sergeant in the 31st Mass. Infantry. In 1869 he married Juliet Metcalf of Williamsburg, Mass., and they lived in Williamsburg... 9. Graves family washing machine, c. 1915 Williamsburg (Mass.); Graves, Joseph Strong, 1853-1920; Graves, Joseph Edwin, 1892-1969; Graves; Ruth Elizabeth, 1896-1979; Graves, Rachael Matilda, 1898-2000; Graves, Dwight Lincoln, 1902-1994; Washing machines This snapshot by a member of the Joseph Strong Graves family shows a home-made, gasoline-powered outdoor precursor of the modern clothes washer. It was likely devised as a present to the women of the household... 10. 'Wedding Party,' 150th Anniversary Pageant, 1921 Williamsburg (Mass.)--Anniversaries, etc.; Anniversaries--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Tarbox, Jessie Richmond, 1870-1942 This photograph shows all the spectacularly-costumed participants in a staged 1771 wedding, part of an elaborate pageant during Williamsburg's 1921 150th anniversary celebration. Among those returning... 11. Capt. Charles E. Tileston at home, c. 1900 Williamsburg (Mass.); Tileston, Charles Edward, 1829-1902; Bisbee, Maria Evelyn, 1897-?; Bisbee, Inez Wells, 1898-1970; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans; Carriages and carts--Massachusetts--Williamsburg This photograph shows Capt. Charles E.Tileston, Civil War commander of Co. I, 52nd Mass. Infantry, outside his house in the Searsville district of Williamsburg, Mass., about 1900-1902. Seated in his handsome... 12. Annie Cooney cabinet card, c. 1885 Williamsburg (Mass.); Cooney, Annie, 1867-? This unusual portrait is of Annie Cooney, born in Williamsburg, Mass. as the last child of an Irish immigrant saloon keeper who had done fairly well for himself and could afford to indulge her. It casts... 13. Alice C. House cabinet card, c. 1885 Williamsburg (Mass.); Chesterfield (Mass.); Haydenville (Mass.); Agawam (Mass.); House, Alice C., 1862-1921 Full-length studio portrait of Alice C. House, born in Chesterfield, Mass. and a resident of Haydenville (part of Williamsburg, Mass.) from 1870 until after 1900. She taught a Sunday school class and worked... 14. Fred Carr carte-de-visite, c. 1882 Williamsburg (Mass.); Carr, Fred N., 1869-? Full-length studio portrait of Fred Carr, at the apparent age of about 13. He is wearing an unusual lace-up shirt or tunic, apparently has a pocket watch on a fob in his breast pocket, and on his right... 15. 'Williamsburg Friends,' c. 1890s Williamsburg (Mass.); Haydenville (Mass.); Women--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Group reading--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Interior decoration--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Women's clothing--19th century; Jennie (Colby) Brooks (1866-1931); Harriet (Garfield) Morton (1838-1915); Sarah L. Barnard (1845-1918); Carrie (Barnard) Thayer (1857-1926); Emily Ferry (1870-1907); Emily (Morton) Crosby (1870-1907); Mary L. (Bassett) Pierpont (1865-1926); Genevra Hill (1866-1951); Ellen N. Kingsley (1869-1963). 'Williamsburg Friends' ladies group from Williamsburg and Haydenville, Mass., c. 1890s. Ten women of various ages pose in a stately home for this snapshot of what appears to be a book group or reading... 16. Group [A.O.C.?] portrait on Meekins Library steps, 1900 Williamsburg (Mass.); Damon, Estella Louise, 1887-1972; Meekins Library; Associations, institutions, etc.--Massachusetts--Williamsburg. This photograph shows a group of 35 young men and women, most of them appearing to be teenagers while one man and two women seem to be adults, posed on the front steps of the three-year-old Meekins Library... 17. Grand Army of the Republic float, Williamsburg, Mass. Old Home Days, 1915 Williamsburg (Mass.)--Anniversaries, etc.; Bailey, Adelbert, 1843-1932; Bisbee, Henry, 1837-1917; Anniversaries, etc.--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Grand Army of the Republic; United States--History--Civil War, 1816-1865--Veterans Local Civil War veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic ride in a parade during Williamsburg's Old Home Days celebration in 1915. Only two men are identified: Adelbert Bailey, holding the flag, and... 18. Williamsburg (Mass.) Drum Corps, c. 1904 Williamsburg (Mass.); Hyde, Elwyn, 1894-1993; Ames, Wesley, 1887-1923; Kelly, George, 1890-?; Waldemire, Casper, ?-?; Graves, Philip Richards, 1887-1969; Hyde, Edward Lucius, 1885-?; Graves, Arthur F., 1886-1978; Williamsburg Drum Corps; Drum and bugle corps--Massachusetts--Williamsburg Group portrait of the Williamsburg Drum Corps, about 1904. But for this photograph, the existence of this local youth organization would be unknown today. No other information has been discovered about... 19. Sophie Eaton & Ronald Reagan, 1969 Williamsburg (Mass.); Damon, Sophia Clara, 1896-1987; Reagan, Ronald Wilson, 1911-2004; Pillsbury Company; Elementary school teachers--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Baking-Competitions--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Bake-Off (Contest) Sophie (Damon) Eaton, a beloved grammar-school teacher in Williamsburg for many decades, was a finalist in the 20th Annual Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969. As part... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-19 of 19 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next
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