Photo Collection
Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Lincoln School Graduation, 1914
Reprinted from the Brookline Chronicle, June 12, 1986
Lincoln School, 1930s
Visible on the far left are 158 and 156 Boylston St., still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Lincoln School, 1930s
Partially visible behind the school on the left is 189 Walnut St., still standing. In the distance on the right is 244 Boylston St., no longer standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Lawrence School, Francis St.
Named after Amos A. Lawrence. Replaced in 1929.
Lawrence Playground
Looking toward Francis St. From left to right:
  • The northwest side of the old Lawrence School, replaced by a newer building
  • A partial view of 24 Francis St., still standing
  • 34 Francis St., still standing
  • Rear view of 49 Francis St., no longer standing

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
Lawrence School, Francis St., circa 1894
Building no longer standing
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Lawrence School Graduation, circa 1927
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]
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]
54 Gardner Rd., 1888
Home of William E. Lincoln. Still standing.
173 Gardner Rd., 1888
No longer standing.
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]
Rawson Rd., November 1915
Looking north toward ?. Foreground, right: #175, 179, 185, all still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
Gardner Rd., November 1915
Looking northest from Tappan St.
[Source: Olmsted]
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