Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PHA 1000.39 |
Title |
Along the Abbajona |
Collection |
Along the Abbajona Photograph Album |
Object Name |
Album, Photograph |
Scope & Content |
"Along the Abbajona" is an album containing 29 photographic views of the Aberjona River from Waterfield Road to Bacon Street taken about 1900, after the construction of the Mystic Valley Parkway. Each photograph was pasted onto a right-hand page, while a poetic quotation was written in white ink on the facing page. Most of the quotations are from Longfellow with a couple from Sir Walter Scott and one from William Cullen Bryant. The album begins with the following lines from Longfellow's "Autumn," "O what a glory doth this world put on / For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth / Under the bright and glorious sky." |
Admin/Biographical History |
During the late 1800s, while Winchester was bedeviled with a river pollution problem, the park movement began. Boston had developed its Emerald Necklace and sought to connect itself to outlying reservations, including the Middlesex Fells, through the creation of parkways. The Mystic Valley Parkway project included also the creation of two parks (Manchester and Ginn Fields) and spurred a river improvement program which continued in stages for a half century. The parkway opened in 1897 (with the extension above Walnut Street opening two years later). Manchester Field was not completed until 1902. The photographer is unidentified. The donor was Henry Caldwell Robinson (1853-1944), a native of Winchester and son of a pastor of the First Congregational Church. He was employed by the railroad, beginning as an apprentice in the machine shop of the Boston & Lowell Railroad and working his way up to superintendent of the Southern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad. |
Copyrights |
Permission to publish material from this collection is subject to approval by the Town of Winchester. |
Finding Aids |
A finding aid with detailed information about the contents of the collection is available. Contact the Archives for a copy. |
People |
Ayer, Addie Ayer, Albert Ayer, Mrs. Edwin Ayer, Eugene Ayer, Luther Ayer, Thomas Ayer, Thomas Prentiss Ayer, Harry Ayer, Nathaniel Ayer, Nat Ayer, Warren Ayer, Janice (Janie?) Barnes, H. F. Carlton, Laura J. Cummings, Mott Davidge, Ella Dunbar, Minnie Locke, Emilie C. Macdonald, Hannah Louisa Dupee Noyes, Mrs. George Noyes, George Pond, J. Shepard Stevens, Mary Stevens, Lizzie Stevens, Georgie Symmes, Alice Symmes, Anna Symmes, Lizzie Symmes, Luther Richardson Weld, George A. Weld, Fannie Ayer Weld, Luther Weld, Alfred Ollis Winn, Dennis B. Winn, Mary Weld, Ollis |
Containers |
Along the Abbajona |