"Forefathers' Rock, Plymouth, Mass." Photo of a group of men posing with the bottom portion of Plymouth Rock a few years before the first stone memorial was built around it in Plymouth, Massachusetts, c. 1859. Taken by photographer Deloss Barnum. This is probably the earliest surviving photo of any portion of Plymouth Rock.
Photo of Union soldiers of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Regiment and civilians on the South Common in Lowell, Massachusetts, c. 1861-1864. Taken by photographer Simon Towle and originally published as a stereoview. The caption on the back of the stereoview is: "May training on South Common, jail in distance, 7 companies of the 6th Regiment Volunteers." The city's jail is prominently featured in the background at center.
View probably showing a parade on a crowded Main Street during centennial celebrations of the 1775 Battle of Concord in Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1875. Originally published as a stereoview.
Probable self-portrait of photographer O. M. Perrigo posing with his horse-drawn photography wagon with darkroom attached to the back. The subject appears to be holding a string which would have been attached to the camera lens cover, allowing him to take a self-portrait. Perrigo seems to have taken this stereoview photograph (cropped and edited for clarity) after taking more than two dozen stereoviews of buildings, machinery and employees at the Excelsior Straw Works in Medfield, Massachusetts, sometime during the late 1860s.
Portrait of photographer J. C. Moulton (1824-1914) of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1900. Moulton started taking daguerreotypes in 1848 and took a number of stereoviews of Fitchburg. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.
View of the Fitchburg County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1860s/1870s. It was destroyed by a fire during which no prisoners were injured or escaped in 1875. Attributed to J. C. Moulton. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.
Portrait of Union soldiers of the Fitchburg Fusiliers in front of the Rollstone House in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1861. The photo was taken shortly before they left to fight in the Civil War as Company B of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Attributed to J. C. Moulton. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.
Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posing on the porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1856. Taken by the Langenheim Brothers.
Source: New York Public Library.
