Historic Northampton


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Howland Photograph Album


Turn-of-the-Century Photograph Album known as the Howland Photograph Album (350 images).
 In 1998, this photograph album containing 350 photographic prints dating to the end of the nineteenth century was found in a house on Lyman Road in Northampton, Massachusetts formerly owned by Agnes Wright Howland (1903-1995).  The album features candid snapshots of an unidentified family and other individuals, of unidentified landscapes and of Northampton sites and events.  Northampton images include Main Street, the Mill River, the Smith College campus, Ivy Day at Smith College, Hockanum Ferry and President William McKinley's 1899 visit to Northampton.  Ten album pages have handwritten notations with dates ranging from 1897 to 1900.  Howland Photograph Album


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  • Photographs of William McKinley
  • Photographs of Main Street, Northampton
  • Photographs of Smith College
  • Photographs of Angel DeCora

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