74 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, some col.; 88x177mm. or smaller.
Summary
Views of Essex County, including: Amesbury: the Eastern Railroad station, Bartlett's block and Main St., Hamilton Mills, and Whittier's home; Andover: Main St., showing businesses, the square, showing large elm tree and Elm House, elm arch and the library, the Free Church, Abbot Academy, Phillips Academy, Andover Theological Seminary, a parsonage, Harriet Beecher Stowe's home; Beverly: town hall, the new Briscoe School house, a monument decorated with wreaths and garlands, the Beverly bridge, including a view showing a horse trolley crossing, a group of African American women and men on the porch of a house one holding a guitar, possibly in Beverly; Bradford: Bradford Academy including an interior view showing desks, gas lights, a clock,; Byfield: L.A. Morrison & Son Woolen factory; Danvers: the pool, the Endicott pear tree, planted, 1682 by Gov.Endicott, a business building containing a tailor, dry goods, fancy goods stores, wagons in front, residence of C.H. Shepard, the railroad station; North Danvers: house where Gen Israel Putnam was born, 1718; Manchester: men posed under Aggasiz Rock; man and woman seated outside a cottage among the trees in Hamilton; Ipswich: the public library; tents on Ipswich Bluffs; Laurel Hill: an iron bridge leading to the business district; Marblehead: Abbot Hall, other buildings in foreground, carriages on Pleasant St., a large business block, view of sloops in harbor, Marblehead in background, boats anchored in bay, beach homes at left.
Visitors on a rock beach at Camp Lowell, Marblehead Neck, one looking through a telescope; Newbury: Chas. W. Woods residence; Peabody: George Peabody's funeral train, showing draped casket, the Peabody catalfaque showing crowd gathered on snowy day, Peabody tomb; portrait of Queen Victoria; group playing croquet in front of house on Plum Island; Salisbury: views at the beach, a large party resting on the beach, carriages beyond, beach homes, boats pulled ashore on Point shore, a lumber boat at a wharf at the Point, an interior view of Salisbury Point Congregational Church; Swampscot: boats in full sail, New York and Eastern Yacht Clubs regatta off Swampscot, Aug. 14, 1871, a distant view of Phillips Point, rock gardens, flower beds, sculpture and the sea view at Phillips Point; Topsfield: interior view of a church; general view of West Newbury; view of a mill stream, possibly in Amesbury, showing older buildings, and a large mill in background, outhouse(?) along the stream; a large neo-classical building, possibly a church; waterways in Essex county; theatrical group in costume on stage; an unidentified interior, probably a church, draped with flags "In honor of our fallen heroes," possibly in Methuen; an unidentified summer resort showing cottages, a speaker in front of a grove of benches.