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1885
HGO-01-001-O-E-106
GUSN-194160
This album includes thirty-one views of 22 Garden Street in Cambridge, Mass.; Watertown, Mass. above the fish dam; Craigie Street in Cambridge, Mass.; "Winchester's" in Cambridge, Mass.; Cambridge as seen from Brighton, Mass.; Stonybrook; West Concord, Mass.; interior of the study at 140 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass.; "a studio"; Riverside farm; "Dr. Foster's Office"; Riedesel Mansion, Cambridge, Mass.; and Cambridge as seen from the cemetery. It is stamped "James A. Wells."
interior spaces
landscapes (environments)
streetscapes
studies (rooms)
studios (work spaces)
farms
hay
offices (work spaces)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 41a
1 photograph album; 10x 12 1/2 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.041A
Gift
Gift of Miss Lois Lilley Howe
Cambridge (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Assabet (Massachusetts) [river]
Watertown (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
West Concord (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Brighton (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Winchester (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Probably Howe, Lois Lilley, 1864-1964 (Photographer)
Wells, James A. (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Cambridge Photographic Club (Cambridge, Mass.)
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-106
This is one of six albums documenting the work of members in 1885, 1886-87, 1889, 1893, 1894, and 1895. This is an outstanding record of the viewpoints and techniques typical of amateur photographers of the period. The albums are also intersting for viewing architectural subjects. Individual photographers are unfortunately unidentified. However, it is believed that the 1885 volume may represent the work of Lois Lilley Howe, better known as the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture. Howe was also an amateur photographer. (Information supplied by Charles Sullivan, Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission). Also includes " A Short history of the Old Cambridge Photographic Club" by James A. Wells, 1903.
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