45 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 88x178mm. or smaller.
Summary
Views of Norfolk County: Thayer Academy, Braintree; group of men outside large building, Braintree; Canton: office of Rising Sun Black Lead works, showing statues on the grounds, view of an engraving of Rising Sun Factory and grounds, Wm. Hawes in front of jewelry store with intricate clock; Kimballs's beach house, Cohassett, with people on the porch; students gathered on rocky beach, at or near East Weymouth; students gathered in front of Dedham highschool; group and their tents on rocky beach, at or near East Weymouth; Franklin: Dean Academy, Universalist Church; Hyde Park: Sumner Heights and Hazelwoood Valley Railroad, showing station, switch and signal: built by Geo. Mansfield, tracks have only a 10-inch gage, view shows children sitting in miniature cars; Pythian Hall in Hyde Park, hardware store occupies part of the first floor; silk mill in Lyman; view of a salesman(?) from the Excelsior straw Works in Medfield, holding a stack of hats and standing next to his wagon; a church in Medway village; Minot's ledge lighthouse; J.M. Stewart;s house, Norfolk; City mills in Norfolk; Norwood: Main St., showing tree-lined street with homes, church, Baptist Church and parsonage; Quincy: First Parish Meeting House, showing church and cemetery, the Adams Mansion, home of John and John Quincy Adams, Adams birthplace, Unitarian church, general view looking east, homes.
Randolph: street view with railroad tracks in the foreground; Sharon: woman in buggy in front of Lewis W. Flanders residence, a church, store, "Old lake House"; interior view of first parish church, Stoughton, Christmas, 1876, showing decorations; Albert Tirrell's house, South Weymouth, showing house, greenhouse; pastor in pulpit of church, Weymouth or vicinity, showing decorations, tromp l'oeil painting.
Alternative title
American historical series of stereocopic pictures.