Vintage Lancaster

Incorporated in 1653, Lancaster, Massachusetts is the oldest town in Worcester County and the earliest permanent settlement in the central part of the state. It is located in the beautiful Nashua Valley, and its center is near the "Meeting of the Waters," where the north and south branches of the Nashua converge to form one stream that flows north to the Merrimack.

A street scene in Lancaster Center, pre-1913

  

 One-room schoolhouse

 

 The happy couple, posing in front of a house on the corner of Old Common 

and Bolton Station Road, prepares to take their new Hupmobile for a spin

 

 The Yonder Hill Boys, 1934-36

  

Wagonload of ladies

 

Source: Lancaster, Massachusetts Historical Photo Collection

Antique autos

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Reuben Sallows

 A boy holding a stick contemplates hitting backside of a large man 

(Jonathan Miller) who is standing in front of fence reading a newspaper

  

 Feeding pig, 1922

  

 Posed picture of four men and bicycles after crash on path; three women in background

  

 Two young women in the woods

  

Woman holding baby chick, 1910

 

Source: Huron County Museum

Vintage Vancouver

 Dining hall, perhaps for a logging camp

  

 Family group outside houses

  

 Mattie on a hot stove, 1902

  

 Women doing dishes, 1902

  

Women in rafters, 1902

 

Source: Vancouver Public Library Historical Photo Collection

A.H. Poole

 Adair's Bakehouse, Waterford, ca. 1896
 

 Mr. Austin's servants
 

 Mrs Poole & Mrs Hughes, group at Woodstown, 23 May 1909
 

 Threshing, Co. Waterford, 27 September 1923
 

Three generations of a family pose beside their "home"
at Alexander Street, Waterford, 2 February 1924

 
Source: National Library of Ireland

Suffragettes

 Mrs. Suffern with a home-made banner in the parade, 1914

  

 Suffrage Hay Wagon, 1910-15

  

 Suffrage news girls, 1910-15

  

 Suffrage pageant - Long Island, May 24, 1913

  

Suffragettes, Labor Day, 1913

At the Beach

Time to break out the umbrellas and the trashy books...

 Bathing at Atlantic City, NJ, 1905-20

  

 In the surf at York Beach, Maine, ca. 1901

  

 On the beach, 1900-10

  

On the beach, Coney Island, New York, ca. 1905

  

Palm Beach, Florida, 1900-10