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Lawrence School, Francis St., circa 1894
Building no longer standing
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Lawrence School, Francis St., 1892
No longer standing
Page 20, plate 7294. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School, Woodworking Shop, 1892
Page 21, plate 7295. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School, Kitchen, 1892
Page 22, plate 7296. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School, Assembly Hall, 1892
Page 23, plate 7297. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School, Ninth Grade, 1892
Page 24, plate 7298. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School, Sewing Class, 1892
Page 25, plate 7299. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lawrence School Graduation, circa 1927
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Ingersoll Cunningham and Delia Broderick, 53 Seaver St., 1935
Delia Broderick (1895-1971) emigrated from Ireland in 1915. By 1927, she was a live-in servant for the John Henry Cunningham family on 53 Seaver St. She is shown here with the Cunningham’s youngest child, Ingersoll (1923-2020). Never married, she lived at the house for the rest of her life remaining, in her later years, a close friend to the widowed Theresa Cunningham, wife of John.
[Source: Smithsonian]
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Gardner Rd.
Looking from Washington St. From left to right:
- 549 Washington St., in the background, still standing
- 2 Gardner Rd. , still standing
- 26 Gardner Rd.
- 30 Gardner Rd.
- 34 Gardner Rd., still standing
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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54 Gardner Rd., 1888
Home of William E. Lincoln. Still standing.
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173 Gardner Rd., 1888
No longer standing.
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Colbourne Crescent Entering Rawson Rd., November 1915
121 Colbourne Crescent foreground right is still standing, Rawson Rd.house in the background is not.
[Source: Olmsted]
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Rawson Rd., November 1915
Looking north toward ?. Foreground, right: #175, 179, 185, all still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
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Gardner Rd., November 1915
Looking northest from Tappan St.
[Source: Olmsted]
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105 Gardner Rd. (Speculative), circa 1896
The home of the family of Edward Steese, a physician turned wool merchant, and later the home of the family of his daughter, Gertrude Steese, and her husband, Norman Hill White. This photograph was found in her 1896 wedding book.
The Whites lived in the house until 1927 when Norman White was imprisoned for larceny. It was torn down circa 1935.
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Gardner Rd., November 1915
Looking northeast from Tappan St., #219 Garner on the left.
[Source: Olmsted]
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73 Gardner Rd.
Standing on Gardner Rd. looking up at Wintrhop Rd. Replaced the William Aspinwall house. No longer standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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Tappan St. & Blake Rd., December 23, 1915
143 Tappan St. to the left is still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
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156 Tappan St.
Looking toward Boylston St., circa 1876. On the left in the far distance is the First Parish Church on Walnut St. On the right is a rear view of the house of the Goddards on Boylston St. with its outbuildings to the right. The tracks of the railroad, today’s MBTA “D” line, can be glimpsed in the valley right behind the Tappan St. house.
From Photographs of Brookline: taken about 1876 / Richard Hills. Call No.: BROOKLINE/Special (CAGE B.R. 974 H6), Brookline Public Library.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]
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