Lowell Street Views
Title
Lowell Street Views
Description
This collection of street views includes an 1856 engraving of Merrimack Street, black and white photos from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and 21st-century color images. The collection also contains images of the city’s many canals that run alongside the streets, including the Western, Northern, Merrimack, and Eastern canals.
Collection Items
B&W photograph of the view up Merrimack St. From the Corner of Bridge St. showing trolleys and crowds, c. 1910_low-1550.jpg
B&W photograph of the view up Merrimack St. From the Corner of Bridge St. showing trolleys and crowds. There is no caption.
Northern Canal Wall Along Cheever Street, NOV. 22, 1923_low-7161.jpg
B/W photoprint, PLC # 2031. "NORTHERN CANAL WALL ALONG CHEEVER ST / TOP WAS RECENTLY REBUILT / NOV. 22, 1923". Copy 1 has Lot notations in white ink. Copy 3 torn on one corner. Copies 1, 2, and 3 unbound, box 4 of 20. Copy 4 is in P.L.& C. bound…
Northern Canal Wall Along Cheever Street, NOV. 22, 1923_low-7174.jpg
B/W photoprint, PLC # 2030. "NORTHERN CANAL WALL ALONG CHEEVER STREET/TOP WAS RECENTLY REBUILT/NOV. 22, 1923". Copy 2 sepia-tone, others B/W, Copy 3 cropped to 17 x 23 cm. Copies 1, 2, and 3 unbound, box 4 of 20. Copy 4 is in P.L.& C. bound volume…
Northern canal - North Wall Looking Upstream from Aiken Street Bridge, Sunday July 17, 1921_low-8113.jpg
B/W photoprint, PLC # 1749A. "NORTHERN CANAL - NORTH WALL LOOKING UPSTREAM / FROM AIKEN STREET BRIDGE / SUNDAY JULY 17, 1921." Copy 1 bound P.L.& C. volume # 8. Copy 2 in P.L.& C General Files, Box 48 - Folder 1.
View from Broadway Street Bridge over Western Canal Showing Rear of Suffolk St. Tenement blocks, May 19, 1917_low-9587.jpg
B/W photoprint, PLC # 1582A. "VIEW FROM BROADW BRIDGE OVER WESTERN CANAL SHOWING REAR / OF SUFFOLK ST. TENEMENT BLOCKS LOWELL MAY 19, 1917 1582-A". Copy 1 unbound, found in envelope titled "Western Canal and 1925 improvements, below Broadway", Box…
Merrimack Canal/from Merrimack St., 1892_LOW11043.jpg
B/W photoprint. "MERRIMACK CANAL/FROM MERRIMACK ST. LOWELL 1892". Unbound, Box 20 of 20.
Triple-decker tenement in “Little Canada” House and land at junction of Pawtucket, Perkins and Aiken Sts. Looking from Aiken to Perkins St. March 15, 1929_LOWE_7235.jpg
B/W photoprint, PLC # 2438. "HOUSE AND LAND AT JUNCTION OF PAWTUCKET,/ PERKINS AND AIKEN STS. LOOKING FROM AIKEN TO / PERKINS ST. MAR. 15, 1929". Copy 1 is unbound, Box 5 of 20. Copy 2 in P.L.& C. bound volume #11.
Engraving of Junction of the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Lowell, Mass._LOWE-4634.jpg
Engraving of view of Merrimack Street, Lowell, Mass. Clipped from an unidentified issue of Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, p. 265. Engraving depicts the street with a church at the end, businesses along the sides and townspeople…