Historical Photos Catalogue

Thanks to a CPC grant, the Southborough Historical Society has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the its photograph collection with a view to eventually digitizing the images. Here for the first time is a listing of the photo categories in our collection:

Category                                                                    Folder(s)

Aerial Views Aerial Views
Albertina Ratz Dancing Girls Albertina Ratz Dancing Girls
All Wars Memorial All Wars Memorial
American Legion Marker American Legion Marker
Boys and Girls Scouts

 

Boys and Girls Scouts

 

Bridges Southborough Bridges 1, 2
Celebrations Celebrations General 1, 2, 3,
Celebrations   Fourth of July 1902
Celebrations   Memorial Day/Veterans’ Day
Churches Original Baptist Church (Fayville); St. Mark’s;
St. Mark’s
Community Federated (Southville);
Pilgrim Congregational Church
St. Anne
Community House Community House
Coon Club Coon Club
Dam Dam—in Fayville Construction;

Completion; Tributaries—Stony Brook

Farms Deerfoot Meat Plant, Newton St.; St. Mark’s in background
Farms – Deerfoot (delivery wagons)
Wolfpen Farm 1, 2, 3
Farms 1, 2
Farming (animals)
Deerfoot Farm
Fayville Flu Epidemic – Fayville 1917-1918
Hillcrest Inn – Fayville
Fayville, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Horse Team and carriages—Bob Sealey
Fire Department Fire Department
Fitzgeralds Fitzgeralds
Grand Army of the Republic GAR Members
Ground Observer  Corps. For aircraft: WWII. Mary Bullard, Marjorie Spurr, among the volunteers 1943-4-5; South Union School
Hillcrest Inn Hillcrest Inn
Historic Houses Historic Houses Misc 1, 2,3
Brewer Houses
Nathan Brewer House
Around town in 1950s including Colonial Gardens
Brigham House (now Community House)
Fairbanks House
Lincoln House (and Store)
Norcross House
Parker House
Sawin House
Staples House
Artemus Ward House
Kidder Estate Kidder Estate Garden 1, 2
Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus Building
Latisquama Road Latisquama Road
Lost Southborough Photographs of demolished buildings
Marlboro Car Crash 1939 Marlboro Car Crash 1939
Mile Markers Mile Markers
Mills Cordaville Mill, ad for woolen blankets
Mills: Sawin’s Mill
Nichols Mill (2),
Williams Mill
Cordaville Mills
Sawin Mill, Deerfoot Road
Natural Disasters Ice Storm of 1927
 1938 Hurricane
Hurricane Edna 1954
1978 Blizzard
Wind Damage 1959
People (General) Clubs/Organizations/Police/etc.

Rotary Club

Southborough Firefighters
Women’s Club of Southborough
 Town Baseball
 Town Baseball
 sports
People Military

 

People (Specific)  Beaton
 Boutilier
 Brewer
 Burke
 Burnett
 Collins

 

 Finn
 Fuentes

 

 Fuentes
 Guzzi
 Henderson
 Hill
 Holmes, Jauncy
 Hutt Stivers
 Hyde
 Lincoln
 Maguire
 Newton (1) Newton (2)
 Parker
 Ramelli
 Ryan
 Sawin
 Turenne
 

 

 Webber
 Worcester Girls Trade
 A. Woodward, M. Finn
People People, Misc.
Reservoir Bridge on Cemetery Road ( ?) Maybe either one of the two roads shown used to be Cemetery Road? (Have to check)
Flood: Looking from Deerfoot down Parkerville Road 2 copies of 2 scenes.
Dam on Deerfoot flooding. (two vistas)
Railroad Cordaville RR Station
Cordaville Station and Mill nearby
Cordaville Station 1860-1870
Cordaville Station
Cordaville RR Station
Cordaville RR Station, home,  part of Cordaville Mill
Man shoveling snow below: Fayville Dam with heavy water flow on rocks below
Fayville Depot
Fayville Station and Freight Bldg (1) and 2).
Fayville Depot with clear passenger and freight areas
Southville RR

 

 

Railroad – Southborough – Miscellaneous
Railroad—Cordaville train wreck
School

 

 

 

Flagg School, 1927
Schools Photo of students at Oak Hill School
Class or school (discolored photo in very poor condition.)
Peters High School Class of 1953.
Peters Annex 1911 Grades  8 and 9

2 copies with ids on back

20th Reunion: Peters High Class of 1935

 

Peters Class of 1939 Reunion  1939 Baseball Team (ids)
Peters Class of 1930

Baseball Team (2 copies)

Class photos—Speakers at Graduation

(2 copies with ids)

Peters High Homecoming 1981
Highland Street Elementary School 1901 (Cox House???) (3 copies)
Fayville School 1904 -06

 

Peters High 7th grade

 

Peters High (1906-07)
 

 

 

Peters High Bldg. two classes 1900 1910
Peters and elementary: Grades 2 and 3

 

Peters class of 1909
School lower grades
Peters 1919
Peters 1920  Grade 9
Peters 1921-22, Grades 5, 6
Peters 1925-26, Grades 6-8
Class of Peters students

No id (early 20th C?)

Class of students

No id and very poor copy

Reunion of Peters HS Class of 1953 (+?)
Reunion of Peters Class of 1902
Peters High Basketball 1908
Miss Mary Finn and class outside (original and copy) (however back note says “To Miss Neary  from Mrs. Everett, Southville”)
Miss Margaret Neary and class outside

(original and copy)

 

Inside classroom (maybe event with parents or older students) (original and copy)
Photo: Fayville School Miss Neary 1904

Students of several grades on steps at front of the school, seated on lawn and some on benches on lawn–with Miss Neary and in classroom.

Individual students’ photos at Neary School 1971-72 with names
Owned by Fay School (private school)

Goodman House, Middle Road; rear of two old school buildings from 1900 andå 1901 razed in 1986; razed 1986; Fay School students at desks waiting for ???

 

 

 

Peters High 1907-1908

 

Peters High Girls Basketball 1922-23
Peters High Boys Basketball 1922-1923
Peters High all four classes 1926
Peters High graduating class 1929
Peters High graduating class 1938; 1938 boys’ basketball team
Peters High Graduating Class 1948;

Class Reception

Peters High Class of 1949
Peters High 1955-58 Girls only (2 copies)
Peters High 1957 (several class photos with one from their earlier school days?)
Peters High Class of ’57 in chemistry lab and playing softball
Peters High Class of ’59 Student-Faculty Basketball Game
Peters High 1959 Champion Girls’ Basketball Team
Peters High School undated: Four photos of faculty, a graduating class, and all students in  a school (Peters?)
Peters High School undated: Four photos of faculty, a graduating class,  all students in  a school.
Peters HS Original Building; photos of workmen, at site where fire station is now. Built by WPA (Works Progress Administration), part of F.D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”
Peters High School, construction, views from across street at Community House;

Photo of annex to the school that became the police station.

South Union School being built. 1897 Also known as Highland St. School and the South Grammar School. (Checking to see if there was another school by that name). Described in one photo as being on Parkerville Rd.
Photos of students and teachers at South Union 1890s
About 25 students at So. Union in 1914. Ids on back of photo.

Another photo is of “Southville School” on Parkerville Road.(Check that)

South Union School as built and later when being renovated for re-use in the 1970s.
Peters HS and Annex  1) dark photo of “old High School across from Community House”, 2) less dark one of same, 3) taking down old Peters and creating annex 1938. Some workers shown: David Tbolts, Joe Mitt, Joseph Cerutto, and “Town Gang”. Armonian Pit, Temp 94 degrees, “Humidity Terrible.” 1928.
Color photo…Peters High, Peters Annex (before any changes)
Peters Annex: Opened in 1933 to house lower grades and used through June 1970. After school closed was refitted in May 1971 to become the Southborough Police Station.
Photos of workmen on Peters Annex: Joseph Cerutti, Chick Sales, Lawrence Misener. (“High school WPA.”)  Old school interior with students: Present site of old fire house ca 1900. Old high school; says “Peters High being built in rear.”
South Grammar School 1897: Highland Street School: students, teachers in front of school (3 copies; one with teachers, students’ names. South Grammar School, class of 1897 informal photo (but smaller than above) also with names. Albie Dorr teacher.
Primary School, Cordaville. Photo only. South Grammar School, Southville; South Grammar School (same but bluish glossier photo)
Aerial view, Neary School (2)
Fay School: 22 photos of buildings being razed; Summer and September 1986; Main School building on Main Street(5); Building being razed (4); Buildings partially razed (7); Building completely razed 1; View of school from rear (off Middle Road).
Wentworth’s School Bus, Fayville, small and enlarged photos with driver Wiiliiam Wentworth. Drove bus from 1926 when purchased to he died in 1940.
West End School, 1888, Mary Heald was teacher (not shown); 1889, Connie Blackwell teacher (not shown) (no student ids)
Albert Woodward Middle School, School photos 1971, 1972, 1973.
Albert Woodward Middle School, strip of headshots of students in grade 6; no date.
St. Mark’s School, silhouette of main buildings in blue, framed in hard board (about 3×3”).  Campus buildings (3, one small); main buildings from Main Street side; view from back with chapel;
St. Mark’s School 1966: March fire in new wing of school building. Southborough FD and their truck’s ladders credited with saving from being destroyed; school officials and Fire Capt. Inspecting damage; Marlborough Enterprise photos. Baseball game on campus. Buildings on campus printed in blue (2 copies); view of school from the back (small on heavy backing) Skating rink under construction, .
St. Mark’s School original buildings:  Main Street;  Original school on Main Street; Main building with gate, dorm windows. 1966 fire: 8 photos (from school).
West End School on Johnson farm, Northborough Road (3 same view) plus one. Burned December 9, 1961.
Southborough Arms Southborough Arms, Main Street. Two smaller front and side views; enlarged copy of postcard with view on side going east on Main Street. Firefighters climbing ladder in front and one at window in back unhappy proof that the building would essentially be burned beyond repair in 1966.
Southborough Miscellaneous Photographs (2) Sawin house and dam; dam at Deerfoot Rd., waterfall at dam at Deerfoot; horseshoe dam at Middle Road (2 copies); House at Deerfoot (home to farmworkers?); overlooking White Bagley Rd from Latisquama Rd.
Southborough Miscellaneous Photos Below Cemetery Looking SW (2); Deerfoot Rd, Looking South toward Oveson’s place (farm); Parkerville Rd: horse and buggy near corner of Main St. (people unidentified); Tree between two boulders in rear of Falconi Oil Co. office (no date); Bridge on Cemetery Road (looking direction? West?); Deep hole in river, rear of cemetery
Southborough Views (1)_ Aerial view of Rte. 85/30 with church and Town House and St. Mark’s campus  (2, one better.)  Aerial view of Rte. 495 intersection with Rte. 9 showing Lynbrook Rd. and Lovers Lane; 1960 photo by Wallace Smith. Rtes. 85 and 30. Notes Southborough Arms near right edge of photo with parking lot.  Main St. houses  quite clear.
Southville Southville area buildings (residences), 1890, some still there,
 

 

Wood Street; Road to Hopkinton from Wood St. (two copies of each)
 

 

 

 

 

Cape with barn; large house, maybe two family; porch on one side of front; typical cape with barn behind and smoking chimney? Person in front.  Cape style but with porche over left side of front and small addition with screen door on the right. (Newest in this group as a guess.)
RR station, tracks; Jones House: Behind—building that has been over the years: M.E. (Methodist Episcopal?) Church; (Later: Masonic Lodge); Second Congregational Church; Federated Church; First Community Church.

Bridge on road to Hopkinton from Wood Street; Lincoln’s Store (though the RR station might be more prominent structure in front covering most of store.

Horse drawn delivery wagon from Framingham Market. St. Matthew’s Church (RC), Cordaville. Warner Oland’s House (Birthplace of Joseph Burnett;) and barn. Boutilier’s blacksmith shop; Later Bert Jones Grain and Feed; Southville, Rd.

Wood St Bridge looking toward Hopkinton. Holmes house and store (selling real estate, Sealtest Ice Cream).

Interior of Congregational Church; Southville Square looking West.; two views of the Cong. Church, different times.

Southville Grammar School; [small photo in plastic) Large mill building with sign: S. C. Bowman and Son Company—Medicinal Plasters (said to be on south side of Southville Road nearer to Parkerville Rd.)

Mrs. Holmes’ Store (Lincoln Store? Charles Masterman, delivery wagon; Bridge, Hubley House, Ruth Lindsey House; Congregational Church (built around Civil War) ; Lincoln House,  (2 views); Paul Lincoln?);  horse-drawn US mail wagon and mailman; St. Matthew’s Church, Cordaville.
Stereoscopic Views One set: House –no id; one pair houses and one view of a back field: both id’d as Lewis and Helen M. Hunting (sp?) and “Fayville”; another: George B. Herrick, residence; another house of D.H. Brewer and “Fayville,” Pleasant St. and Turnpike.
Strawberry Hill View from Sears Hill looking across to Strawberry Hill (date?)
Town House View of Town House hidden by St. Mark’s on the left and Pilgrim Church on the right and a large tree in front.  Front all bedecked with American flags, other drapes are striped banners, and large

Banner with Pres. T. Roosevelt in the middle. Described as T.R.’s “presidential victoria celebration.”

VFW- Fayville Color photo of entrance to the VFW building behind the Fayville Village Hall
White’s Corner

 

“Before” photo: the corner as transfer point for trolleys either going back and forth to Worcester and Boston down Turnpike Road (Rte. 9) plus a bridge; AND home to  favorite town watering spot–“White Corner’s” restaurant . “After” 2003 photo: Business block home to Tomasso Restaurant, Starbucks, and smaller food shops and drycleaners.
World War I Howitzer View of Town House with the World War I German Howitzer donated in 1919 and renewed in 1991 by the local businesses and the American Legion Post 132  in memory of all those from Southborough who fought in World War I.  Photo of honor guard for dedication of the refurbished cannon.
Aerial Views Aerial Views
Albertina Ratz Dancing Girls Albertina Ratz Dancing Girls
All Wars Memorial All Wars Memorial
American Legion Marker American Legion Marker
Boys and Girls Scouts

 

Boys and Girls Scouts

 

Bridges Southborough Bridges 1, 2
Celebrations Celebrations General 1, 2, 3,
Celebrations Celebrations   Fourth of July 1902
Celebrations Celebrations   Memorial Day/Veterans’ Day
Churches Original Baptist Church (Fayville); St. Mark’s;
Churches St. Mark’s; Community Federated
Churches Community Federated (Southville);
Churches Pilgrim Congregational Church
Churches St Anne
Churches Churches   Original Baptist Church (Fayville); St. Mark’s; Community Federated (Southville); Pilgrim Congregational Church; St. Anne Church
Community House Community House
Coon Club Coon Club
Dam Dam—in Fayville Construction;

 

 

Completion; Tributaries—Stony Brook

Farms Deerfoot Meat Plant, Newton St.; St. Mark’s in background
Farms Farms – Deerfoot (delivery wagons)
Farms Wolfpen Farm 1, 2, 3
Farms Farms 1, 2
Farms Farming (animals)
Farms Deerfoot Farm
Fayville Flu Epidemic – Fayville 1917-1918
Fayville Hillcrest Inn – Fayville
Fayville, Fayville, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Fayville, Horse Team and carriages—Bob Sealey
Fire Department Fire Department
Fitzgeralds Fitzgeralds
Grand Army of the Republic GAR Members
Ground Observer  Corps. For aircraft: WWII. Mary Bullard, Marjorie Spurr, among the volunteers 1943-4-5; South Union School
Hillcrest Inn Hillcrest Inn
Historic Houses Historic Houses Misc 1, 2,3
Historic Houses Brewer Houses
Historic Houses Nathan Brewer House
Historic Houses Around town in 1950s including Colonial Gardens
Historic Houses Brigham House (now Community House)
Historic Houses Fairbanks House
Historic Houses Lincoln House (and Store)
Historic Houses Norcross House
Historic Houses Parker House
Historic Houses Sawin House
Historic Houses Staples House
Historic Houses Artemus Ward House
Kidder Estate Kidder Estate Garden 1, 2
Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus Building
Latisquama Road Latisquama Road
Lost Southborough Photographs of demolished buildings
Marlboro Car Crash 1939 Marlboro Car Crash 1939
Mile Markers 2 copies: Corner of Main and Sears (should be further east but moved with reservoir construction (also hav wrong date: “Est 1769; Marker “28 miles from Boston, ET: 1770”. Accuracy? Different one now in front of Town House drive.
Mills Cordaville Mill, ad for woolen blankets
Mills Mills: Sawin’s Mill
Mills Nichols Mill (2),
Mills Williams Mill
Mills Cordaville Mills
Mills Sawin Mill, Deerfoot Road
Nancy Morrison (Falconi) early 1980s (small in plastic covers –6 photos)

(note: several of these are duplicated in larger size in next section.)  Fire at General Millls Farm Store (Boston Rd.??); Reservoir frozen and snow; Cordaville Rd. Cemetery view of stones, gravestones; Back of brick building (??) and stone foundation; arched stone bridge over stream (Middle Rd., or near new RR station parking;  gravestones in old cemetery with Fay School bldgs. in background; gate to/from Burnett burial ground (or?); Town marker across from Fay School with bldgs.. since demolished. Front entrance steps to Southborough Library; pine trees and view of Reservoir; Rural Cemetery; Gate to Town Pound behind Town House since 1750. Restored by Rotary Club and dedicated by Gov. Francis Sargent.

Front entrances of South Union School before restoration for town use; Pilgrim Church completed in 1834 at its site next to Town House, built in in center of Southborough. Town House renewed in late1970s. View of St. Mark’s Church, Flagg School  (before).

 

Nancy Morrison, Miscellaneous Photos, early 1980s. Fires: 1-6 General Mills Farm Store; 9 similar photos of Newton Bldg. with p.o. and drug store in town center (numbered); winter view of reservoir; similar with island in the middle of reservoir (no numbers) (similar to smaller photos In previous file by Nancy M. such as cemetery, reservoir, South Union entrances; entrance to library, and Pilgrim Church’s sign; last one: mile marker in front of Fay but quite dark.
Natural Disasters Natural Disasters:  Ice Storm of 1927
Natural Disasters Natural Disasters: 1938 Hurricane
Natural Disasters Natural Disasters Hurricane Edna 1954;
Natural Disasters Natural Disasters: 1978 Blizzard
Natural Disasters Wind Damage 1959;
People  Clubs/Organizations/Police/etc.;

Rotary Club

People Southborough Firefighters
People Women’s Club of Southborough
People  Town Baseball
People  Town Baseball
People  sports
People   Military

 

People  Beaton
People  Boutilier
People  Brewer
People  Burke
People  Burnett
People  Collins

 

People  Finn
People  Fuentes

 

People  Fuentes
People  Guzzi
People  Henderson
People  Hill
People  Holmes, Jauncy
People  Hutt Stivers
People  Hyde
People  Lincoln
People  Maguire
People  Newton (1) Newton (2)
People  Parker
People  Ramelli
People  Ryan
People  Sawin
People  Turenne
People

 

 Webber
People  Worcester Girls Trade
People  A. Woodward, M. Finn
People People, Misc.
Photograph About 1875, four views of Parker Pond, Stoney Brook, Sawins Mill and the Smith House noted as birthplace of FLB and photos by MLB. (B meaning Burnett maybe) (2 sts)
Photograph Outdoor Sign about “Fighting Fourth Liberty Loan” and appealing for “subscriptions” toward town’s quota of $186,400. 2 copies.
Reservoir Bridge on Cemetery Road ( ?) Maybe either one of the two roads shown used to be Cemetery Road? (Have to check)
Reservoir Flood: Looking from Deerfoot down Parkerville Road 2 copies of 2 scenes.
Reservoir Dam on Deerfoot flooding. (two vistas)
Railroad Cordaville RR Station
Railroad Cordaville Station and Mill nearby
Railroad Cordaville Station 1860-1870
Railroad Cordaville Station
Railroad Cordaville RR Station
Railroad Cordaville RR Station, home,  part of Cordaville Mill
Railroad Man shoveling snow below: Fayville Dam with heavy water flow on rocks below
Railroad Fayville Depot
Railroad Fayville Station and Freight Bldg (1) and 2).
Railroad Fayville Depot with clear passenger and freight areas
Railroad Southville RR

 

 

Railroad Railroad – Southborough – Miscellaneous
Railroad Railroad—Cordaville train wreck
School

 

 

 

Flagg School, 1927
Schools Photo of students at Oak Hill School
Schools Class or school (discolored photo in very poor condition.)
Schools Peters High School Class of 1953.
Schools Peters Annex 1911 Grades  8 and 9

2 copies with ids on back

Schools 20th Reunion: Peters High Class of 1935

 

Schools Peters Class of 1939 Reunion  1939 Baseball Team (ids)
Schools Peters Class of 1930

Baseball Team (2 copies)

Class photos—Speakers at Graduation

(2 copies with ids)

Schools Peters High Homecoming 1981
Schools Highland Street Elementary School 1901 (Cox House???) (3 copies)
Schools Fayville School 1904 -06

 

Schools Peters High 7th grade

 

Schools Peters High (1906-07)
Schools

 

 

Peters High Bldg. two classes 1900 1910
Schools Peters and elementary: Grades 2 and 3

 

Schools Peters class of 1909
Schools School lower grades
Schools Peters 1919
Schools Peters 1920  Grade 9
Schools Peters 1921-22, Grades 5, 6
Schools Peters 1925-26, Grades 6-8
Schools Class of Peters students

No id (early 20th C?)

Schools Class of students

No id and very poor copy

Schools Reunion of Peters HS Class of 1953 (+?)
Schools Reunion of Peters Class of 1902
Schools Peters High Basketball 1908
Schools Miss Mary Finn and class outside (original and copy) (however back note says “To Miss Neary  from Mrs. Everett, Southville”)
Schools Miss Margaret Neary and class outside

(original and copy)

 

Schools Inside classroom (maybe event with parents or older students) (original and copy)
Schools Photo: Fayville School Miss Neary 1904

Students of several grades on steps at front of the school, seated on lawn and some on benches on lawn–with Miss Neary and in classroom.

Schools Individual students’ photos at Neary School 1971-72 with names
Schools Owned by Fay School (private school)

Goodman House, Middle Road; rear of two old school buildings from 1900 andå 1901 razed in 1986; razed 1986; Fay School students at desks waiting for ???

Schools

 

 

Peters High 1907-1908

 

Schools Peters High Girls Basketball 1922-23
Schools Peters High Boys Basketball 1922-1923
Schools Peters High all four classes 1926
Schools Peters High graduating class 1929
Schools Peters High graduating class 1938; 1938 boys’ basketball team
Schools Peters High Graduating Class 1948;

Class Reception

Schools Peters High Class of 1949
Schools Peters High 1955-58 Girls only (2 copies)
Schools Peters High 1957 (several class photos with one from their earlier school days?)
Schools Peters High Class of ’57 in chemistry lab and playing softball
Schools Peters High Class of ’59 Student-Faculty Basketball Game
Schools Peters High 1959 Champion Girls’ Basketball Team
Schools Peters High School undated: Four photos of faculty, a graduating class, and all students in  a school (Peters?)
Schools Peters High School undated: Four photos of faculty, a graduating class,  all students in  a school.
Schools Peters HS Original Building; photos of workmen, at site where fire station is now. Built by WPA (Works Progress Administration), part of F.D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”
Schools Peters High School, construction, views from across street at Community House;

Photo of annex to the school that became the police station.

Schools South Union School being built. 1897 Also known as Highland St. School and the South Grammar School. (Checking to see if there was another school by that name). Described in one photo as being on Parkerville Rd.
Schools Photos of students and teachers at South Union 1890s
Schools About 25 students at So. Union in 1914. Ids on back of photo.

Another photo is of “Southville School” on Parkerville Road.(Check that)

Schools South Union School as built and later when being renovated for re-use in the 1970s.
Schools Peters HS and Annex  1) dark photo of “old High School across from Community House”, 2) less dark one of same, 3) taking down old Peters and creating annex 1938. Some workers shown: David Tbolts, Joe Mitt, Joseph Cerutto, and “Town Gang”. Armonian Pit, Temp 94 degrees, “Humidity Terrible.” 1928.
Schools Color photo…Peters High, Peters Annex (before any changes)
Schools Peters Annex: Opened in 1933 to house lower grades and used through June 1970. After school closed was refitted in May 1971 to become the Southborough Police Station.
Schools Photos of workmen on Peters Annex: Joseph Cerutti, Chick Sales, Lawrence Misener. (“High school WPA.”)  Old school interior with students: Present site of old fire house ca 1900. Old high school; says “Peters High being built in rear.”
Schools South Grammar School 1897: Highland Street School: students, teachers in front of school (3 copies; one with teachers, students’ names. South Grammar School, class of 1897 informal photo (but smaller than above) also with names. Albie Dorr teacher.
Schools Primary School, Cordaville. Photo only. South Grammar School, Southville; South Grammar School (same but bluish glossier photo)
Schools Aerial view, Neary School (2)
Schools Fay School: 22 photos of buildings being razed; Summer and September 1986; Main School building on Main Street(5); Building being razed (4); Buildings partially razed (7); Building completely razed 1; View of school from rear (off Middle Road).
Schools Wentworth’s School Bus, Fayville, small and enlarged photos with driver Wiiliiam Wentworth. Drove bus from 1926 when purchased to he died in 1940.
Schools West End School, 1888, Mary Heald was teacher (not shown); 1889, Connie Blackwell teacher (not shown) (no student ids)
Schools Albert Woodward Middle School, School photos 1971, 1972, 1973.
Schools Albert Woodward Middle School, strip of headshots of students in grade 6; no date.
Schools St. Mark’s School, silhouette of main buildings in blue, framed in hard board (about 3×3”).  Campus buildings (3, one small); main buildings from Main Street side; view from back with chapel;
Schools St. Mark’s School 1966: March fire in new wing of school building. Southborough FD and their truck’s ladders credited with saving from being destroyed; school officials and Fire Capt. Inspecting damage; Marlborough Enterprise photos. Baseball game on campus. Buildings on campus printed in blue (2 copies); view of school from the back (small on heavy backing) Skating rink under construction, .
Schools St. Mark’s School original buildings:  Main Street;  Original school on Main Street; Main building with gate, dorm windows. 1966 fire: 8 photos (from school).
Schools West End School on Johnson farm, Northborough Road (3 same view) plus one. Burned December 9, 1961.
Southborough Arms Southborough Arms, Main Street. Two smaller front and side views; enlarged copy of postcard with view on side going east on Main Street. Firefighters climbing ladder in front and one at window in back unhappy proof that the building would essentially be burned beyond repair in 1966.
Southborough Miscellaneous Photographs (2) Sawin house and dam; dam at Deerfoot Rd., waterfall at dam at Deerfoot; horseshoe dam at Middle Road (2 copies); House at Deerfoot (home to farmworkers?); overlooking White Bagley Rd from Latisquama Rd.
Southborough Miscellaneous Photos Below Cemetery Looking SW (2); Deerfoot Rd, Looking South toward Oveson’s place (farm); Parkerville Rd: horse and buggy near corner of Main St. (people unidentified); Tree between two boulders in rear of Falconi Oil Co. office (no date); Bridge on Cemetery Road (looking direction? West?); Deep hole in river, rear of cemetery
Southborough Views (1)_ Aerial view of Rte. 85/30 with church and Town House and St. Mark’s campus  (2, one better.)  Aerial view of Rte. 495 intersection with Rte. 9 showing Lynbrook Rd. and Lovers Lane; 1960 photo by Wallace Smith. Rtes. 85 and 30. Notes Southborough Arms near right edge of photo with parking lot.  Main St. houses  quite clear.
Southville Southville area buildings (residences), 1890, some still there,
Southville

Wood Street

Wood Street; Road to Hopkinton from Wood St. (two copies of each)
Southville

 

 

 

 

Cape with barn; large house, maybe two family; porch on one side of front; typical cape with barn behind and smoking chimney? Person in front.  Cape style but with porche over left side of front and small addition with screen door on the right. (Newest in this group as a guess.)
Southville Misc. RR station, tracks; Jones House: Behind—building that has been over the years: M.E. (Methodist Episcopal?) Church; (Later: Masonic Lodge); Second Congregational Church; Federated Church; First Community Church.

Bridge on road to Hopkinton from Wood Street; Lincoln’s Store (though the RR station might be more prominent structure in front covering most of store.

Horse drawn delivery wagon from Framingham Market. St. Matthew’s Church (RC), Cordaville. Warner Oland’s House (Birthplace of Joseph Burnett;) and barn. Boutilier’s blacksmith shop; Later Bert Jones Grain and Feed; Southville, Rd.

Wood St Bridge looking toward Hopkinton. Holmes house and store (selling real estate, Sealtest Ice Cream).

Interior of Congregational Church; Southville Square looking West.; two views of the Cong. Church, different times.

Southville Grammar School; [small photo in plastic) Large mill building with sign: S. C. Bowman and Son Company—Medicinal Plasters (said to be on south side of Southville Road nearer to Parkerville Rd.)

Southville Miscellaenous (3) Mrs. Holmes’ Store (Lincoln Store? Charles Masterman, delivery wagon; Bridge, Hubley House, Ruth Lindsey House; Congregational Church (built around Civil War) ; Lincoln House,  (2 views); Paul Lincoln?);  horse-drawn US mail wagon and mailman; St. Matthew’s Church, Cordaville.
Stereoscopic Views One set: House –no id; one pair houses and one view of a back field: both id’d as Lewis and Helen M. Hunting (sp?) and “Fayville”; another: George B. Herrick, residence; another house of D.H. Brewer and “Fayville,” Pleasant St. and Turnpike.
Strawberry Hill View from Sears Hill looking across to Strawberry Hill (date?)
Town House View of Town House hidden by St. Mark’s on the left and Pilgrim Church on the right and a large tree in front.  Front all bedecked with American flags, other drapes are striped banners, and large

Banner with Pres. T. Roosevelt in the middle. Described as T.R.’s “presidential victoria celebration.”

VFW- Fayville Color photo of entrance to the VFW building behind the Fayville Village Hall
White’s Corner

Rte. 9 south at corner of Breakneck Hill Road

“Before” photo: the corner as transfer point for trolleys either going back and forth to Worcester and Boston down Turnpike Road (Rte. 9) plus a bridge; AND home to  favorite town watering spot–“White Corner’s” restaurant . “After” 2003 photo: Business block home to Tomasso Restaurant, Starbucks, and smaller food shops and drycleaners.
World War I Howitzer View of Town House with the World War I German Howitzer donated in 1919 and renewed in 1991 by the local businesses and the American Legion Post 132  in memory of all those from Southborough who fought in World War I.  Photo of honor guard for dedication of the refurbished cannon.