Arthur Griffin Collection

Maple sugaring, New Hampshire

  

Re-enactment of First Thanksgiving dinner, 

Harlow House Plymouth, Massaschusetts

 

Shoeshine boys, 1943

 

Shoeshine boys, 1943

 

Students lounging, Dartmouth College, February 15, 1939

 

Youth hostelers, New Hampshire

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

Iceboating

  

Old Home Day Service, Sudbury, Massachusetts

  

Outdoor market, Boston

  

 Showgirls getting ready

  

Tunbridge Fair, Vermont

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

 Horse pulling contest, Sandwich Fair

  

 Icecapades performers, Boston Garden

  

Kappa Sigma House, Dartmouth College

  

 Mailboxes, Greenhill, Rhode Island

  

Man with horse-drawn conveyance transporting logs, New Hampshire

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

East Corinth, Vermont

  

 Fish pier, Boston

  

 Friday 1 P.M. At Norwich - Hanover Station, February 15, 1939

  

 Getting on the chair tramway

  

 Hildegard

[Hildegard was a cabaret singer]

  

Hollywood Theater, Charlestown, Massachusetts

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

 Barn dance, Vermont

  

 Barn dance, Vermont

  

 Collecting maple sap, Wilmington, Vermont

  

Couple kissing in rumble seat, Saugus drive-in theater, 1939

  

 Covered bridge, Vermont

  

Delta Tau Delta, Dartmouth College, February 15, 1939

  

Dog sled, New England

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

 Art festival, Boston Public Garden

  

 Boston Public Garden, ice skating

  

 Breakfast or what would you call it at 4 am Saturday, February 15, 1939

  

 Cleaning and cutting mackerel for canning, New Harbor, Maine

  

Cleanup after hurricane, September 1938

 

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Arthur Griffin Collection

Arthur Griffin was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 12, 1903. Originally trained to be an illustrator, in 1929 he picked up his first camera -- a second-hand folding Brownie -- and thus began a passion that would last a lifetime.

By the mid-1930's, Arthur Griffin had become the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post - a two-page layout on New England.

 Artists, Ogunquit, Maine. Perkins Cove, 1939

  

 Old cars at Framingham

  

 Old cars at Framingham

  

 Old cars at Framingham

  

Old cars at Framingham

 
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