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Reading Historical Images

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Institution: Reading Public Library

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Reading

Items

[Reading High School class of 1904 50th reunion]

[Reading High School class of 1904 25th reunion]

1928 aerial photo, Reading, Mass.

Walter S. Parker

Walter S. Parker Junior High School

Highland School (elementary) Middlesex Avenue

Highland School 1940 second grade

First grade at Union Street School

Union Street School

Birch Meadow Elementary School

[Construction of Joshua Eaton School]

Joshua Eaton School (Elementary)

The residence of James Wight, Sanborn Street, Reading

Reading High School

[Aerial views of Reading, Mass., 1965]

Aerial view Reading High School

The main entrance to Reading High School

[Reading Poor Farm]

Pearl Street School

Reading Poor Farm

Reading Poor Farm

Chestnut Hill School

School 19 years : home 96 years

Quannapowitt Playhouse

Chestnut Hill School 1941 grades 3 and 4

The Quannapowitt Playhouse

Alice M. Barrow[s] Elementary School

Arthur W. Coolidge Middle School

J. W. Killam School

Saint Agnes School

Austin Preparatory School

Aerial view of the Reading Memorial High School

Reading Memorial High School

Reading Memorial High School

Samuel Pierce organ pipe factory

J. W. Richardson shoe factory

Reading Planing Mill

Hutchinson's carriage repository

Everett Richardson Factory

Horton Manufacturing Company

Factory of Charles E. Damon Company

Factory of Henry Austin

[Photograph of S. Harnden's mill yard after fire]

1854 sketch of S. Harnden's mill yard

[Photograph of S. Harnden's mill yard after fire]

[Photograph of S. Harnden's mill yard after fire]

Mayall's experimental lab

[Goodall Sanford Mills]

Ace Art Company

Boston Stove Foundry

Believe it or not!

View of Ash Street

Reading Chronicle office after 1978 blizzard

The Reading Chronicle press

Ye olden-time shoe shop

The 12 mile marker from Boston

Berson Drug Store

Purple Door Paint Store

Jack O'Brien's station

Weston's Greenhouse

Old Colony Bank

The fire at Paul Doucette's furniture store

Laurel Hill cemetery

Laurel Hill cemetery entrance

Laurel Hill Cemetery entrance

World War [I] memorial

Forest Glen Cemetery

Charles Lawn Cemetery

Two views of Old South Church

[First meeting house in Reading, MA]

[Site of first meeting house in Reading, MA]

The Old South Church 1818

[Old South Methodist Church]

Old South Methodist Church

[Old South Methodist Church]

Old South Church

Devastating church fire in 1911

First Church of Christ Scientist

[Bethesda Congregational Church]

Bethesda Congregational Church

Congregational Church

Congregational church fire

Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd

Church of the Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene

Baptist Church, Reading, Mass.

Baptist Church on Salem Street

Baptist Church, Woburn Street

[Fire at First Baptist Church]

[First Baptist Church]

[First Baptist Church]

Christian Union Church

Unitarian Church]

[First Catholic Church]

Saint Agnes Church

Saint Athanasius Church

Odd Fellow's Hall

[Reading Town Hall]

Reading Public Library

Reading Public Library

Reading Town Hall

Reading Public Library and Town Hall

The Reading Public Library

The Reading Public Library

Reading Public Library and Town Hall

Reading Public Library

Central Fire Station

Central Fire Station

Central Fire Station

1914 Knox pumper

Main Street Fire Station

Central Fire Station

Woburn Street fire station

West side fire station no. 2

Ambulance purchased 1956

Reading ambulance

Reading police station

Site of present pumping station

1957 fire at Highland School

Laying the new water lines in Reading Square

Bear Hill standpipe

Auburn Street water towers

Purification plant

Public works garage

New Department of Public Works facility

Reading's very own incinerator

Reading's incinerator

Municipal light and power station

New municipal light building

Reading Municipal Light Department

[American Legion, post 62]

Reading Athletic Club

New England Telephone building

Home of D. Kingman

[Cornerstone of the Reading, MA post office]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O. from west]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

[Reading, Mass. P.O.]

1982 aerial view

[35 Walnut Street]

[472 Summer Avenue]

[Chestnut Hill School]

[483 Summer Avenue]

[483 Summer Avenue]

[Watering trough at Hopkins and Walnut Streets]

[15 Hopkins Street]

[841 North Main Street]

[460-462-464 Summer Avenue]

[Looking down Lowell Street from corner of Highland Avenue]

[55 Lowell Street]

[Old high school and Old South Church]

[Unitarian Church]

[East end Masonic block and square]

[Baptist Church]

[Congregational Church]

[Minot Street, corner Warren Avenue]

Lowell Street cloverleaf on lower edge [Route I93]

[Mrs. Converse's house]

[Parker Tavern]

[Mrs. Converse's living room]

[Mrs. Converse]

Prescott Street

Sanborn Street, Reading, Mass.

Corner of Woburn Street and Main Street at Lowell Street

Corner of Woburn Street and Main Street at Lowell Street about 1902

Paving Woburn Street

Summer Ave., Reading, Mass.

Summer Ave., Reading, Mass.

Edgemont Avenue

Birch Meadow-High School complex

Lowell Street at Highland Street [sic]

Hockey game in flooded yard

The Parker Tavern

Home of Lieutenant Loea and Annie (Bancroft) Parker

Home of Mary Leeds

Edward Manning row house

Benjamin Boyce house

Hartshorne - Pratt home

Thomas Symonds home

The Richardson house

House of Dr. Francis Brown

[Luther Elliott house]

A. Newell Howes home

House located at 36 Gould Street, Reading

Badger family home

Aerial view of west side of lower Main Street

Weston homestead

Batchelder home

Jonathan Frost house

Jonathan Frost home

Jonathan Frost house

The Jacob W. Manning home

The green doorway

Reading Home for Aged Women

Reconstructed Skinner organ factory

Skinner organ factory

Church organ builders

[97 Pleasant Street]

[42 John Street]

Aerial view of Washington Park

P. & S. Variety Store

Nancy Bliss' candy store

McLaughlin's Variety Store

Joann's Variety Store

Myrtle Waterhouse's store

Dragon Corner Store

Friendly Variety Store

The Pratt house

The Pratt house

[House moved from Salem Street to Azalea Circle]

The move of the Ruggles' house

Aerial view of Christensen's Gardens and Washington Park

[House moved from Reading Lumber Yard]

[Formerly [39] Woburn Street]

[Formerly 39 Woburn Street]

September 1938 hurricane

Elmer Rising's Parker Tavern

Father Kemp's Olde Folks Concert

Hancock No. 2 personnel

Old Center School

Girl Scouts, Reading, Massachusetts

Girl Scouts, Reading, Massachusetts

[R. Dexter Temple in front of home of Waldo E. Perkins]

R. Dexter Temple

1985 aerial view [Reading, Mass.]

Rally on Reading Common 1990

[Workers of Walter Hopkins' farm]

The Reading Women's Choral Class

Reading baseball team season of 1919

Reading High School class of 1932

Prospect Street school 1910

HIghland School 1914

[Aerial photograph of Reading, Mass.]

Reading benchmarks

Reading benchmark maps

[Reading's Bicentennial Celebration]

[Reading's Bicentennial Celebration Committee]

[Ringing the bells for Reading's Bicentennial Celebration]

[Reading's Bicentennial Celebration]

[Reading's Bicentennial Celebration]

Broadside of the Lowande Circus

Reading fairgrounds

Imagination Station play area

Meadow Brook Golf Club

Football field at Reading Memorial High School

Little League ball park

Community Christmas tree

Entrance to Memorial Park

Running track at Reading Memorial High School

New Camp Rice Moody

Camp Rice Moody

Bay State Military Rifle Association

Sailor Tom's home [the ship]

Canal-dump and curtain

[Laurel Hill Cemetery] : new wall replacing iron fence

Church and high school

Tannerville complex

Cedar Glen complex

Peter Sanborn complex

Dedication of Barclay and Bishop local history room

Reading's historians

Reading Town Forest

[Trolley tracks in Reading Square, Reading, MA]

Lowell trolleys

Intersection of Main and Haven Street

M. F. Charles, jeweler and stationer

Chamberlain's Block

West side of Main Street

Reading Theatre in Square

Site of Reading Theatre

[Town Garage, Reading, MA]

Trolley car barns

View of Square, Reading, Mass.

The Elmwood Hotel

The Reading Inn

West side of Main Street in 1947

West side of Main Street in 1956

West side of Main Street to Haven Street on left

Continuation of west side of Main Street in 1956

Reading sign on common

Reading Square from Reading Common

Reading Common and Old South Church

"NE corner of Main and Haven Streets"

E. C. Metcalf's store

July 4th parade in Reading

Site of Willis home on Main Street

The new VFW meeting house

An end to elegance

Reading Theatre

Main Street looking north from Chapin Avenue

Reading Theatre

Main Street looking north from Green Street

Main Street looking south from Haven Street

Intersection of Main and Washington Street

Haven Street looking east toward Main Street

Haven Street looking west from Main Street

Haven Street looking west from Main Street

Trolleys in Reading Square

Two views of Masonic Block

Middlesex County National Bank

Motorcycle business

Painting by Reading resident Ellen Nelson

Early morning fire at Seaport Fish Market and Restaurant on Haven Street

Rockport Fish Market

For a mere hole in the ground it has entertained a lot of people recently

Reading Cooperative Bank

Lower Haven Street

R. R. Station and Black's Block

Corner of Haven and High Streets

Looking north on Haven Street from High Street

Looking north on Chute Street

Old Reading Depot

Reading Depot looking north

Aerial photo Reading Square looking north

Reading depot heading south

Boston & Maine Pacific 3640 at Reading Highlands

Boston & Maine Pacific 3653 with train #1020 at Reading Highlands

The Highland Roundhouse

Boston & Maine Pacific 3687 at Reading Highlands with train #118

Boston & Maine Pacific 3638 leaving Reading Highlands with train #135

Boston & Maine Pacific 3627 at Reading Highlands

Boston & Maine Pacific 3627 and 3623 at Reading Highlands

Roundhouse Reading Highlands

Railroad crossing Woburn Street

Reading Highlands

Reading Highlands

Boston & Maine locomotive #3713 "Constitution"

Boston & Maine locomotive #3713 "Constitution"

Train heading toward Boston

Railroad yards at Reading Highlands

Redesigned railroad area

Diesel engine at Reading Depot

New "no-bump" crossing at Woburn Street

Prospect Street School

Prospect Street School

Lowell Street School

The Center School

The Reading High School Band

Miss Hattie Walker's Sunday school class (Unitarian)

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