The Henry L. Hadcock Photographic Collection contains approximately 400 original negatives, from which study prints have been made.
Hadcock focused his interest as a photographer on the idea of the neighborhood and its homes, stores, parks, vistas, and families, viewed in association with their homes, engaged in pastimes, or their daily activities. Hadcock's photography is vernacular in respect to documenting the material culture and social life of middle-class families, portraying them with a spontaneity and attention to small details often absent from the work of commercial photographers. Most of the images depict several communities in Massachusetts, including Roxbury, Dorchester, Canton, Norton, and Wellfleet.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 8.
families
home (concept)
neighborhoods
houses
stores
parks (recreation areas)
photographers
commercial buildings
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
ca. 400 photographic prints : black-and-white
ca. 400 photographic negatives : black-and-white
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Henry L. Hadcock photographic collection, 1880s-1900s
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Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Canton (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Norton (Bristol county, Massachusetts)
Wellfleet (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Hadcock, Henry L., 1855-1931 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
Boston Camera Club
Collection
Henry L. Hadcock was a pharmacist in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His apothecary was located at 2700 Washington Street. He was an amateur photography and an active member of the Boston Camera Club.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 8.
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