Description: In 1890 the office listing for Frank T. Dwinell in the Boston Directory was 50 State Street, Room 17, Boston, Massachusetts. This was also Henry L. Rand’s office circa 1903-1906 when he was Treasurer of Stark Cotton Mills. The Dwinell family had been early settlers in the towns associated with those mills.
Description: In 1890 Abby and John MacDuffie took over the Misses Howard’s school and founded the MacDuffie School for Girls in Springfield, Massachusetts, serving together as principals of the school for over forty years.
Description: The home of Thomas and Frances Wakefield, and later of their son John. Frances Lathrop Wakefield was the aunt of the photographer Henry L. Rand.
Description: The house in the background is now the Nieman Foundation’s Walter Lippmann House at One Francis Street. It was built in 1836 by Ebenezer Francis, a carpenter and Harvard custodian. The street, of course, was named for him. In 1892, when Henry Lathrop Rand took the photograph while living at his mother’s house across Francis Street on the corner at 49 Kirkland Street, the Francis Street house was still listed on maps as the Eben Francis House. Harvard University bought the Francis property in 1974 and gave it to the Nieman Foundation. It was Christened as the Walter Lippmann house on September 23, 1979 with much fanfare attended by a raft of famous journalists and political persons. They celebrated by breaking a bottle of champagne on its front steps. Henry would have been fascinated. [show more]