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ca. 1875
Prints and Engravings > Oversized > Massachusetts > Dalton-Danvers
GUSN-275322
The Weston Paper Works on the Housatonic River is seen in the print with two smaller images showing the front of the mill and the counting room. The top of the image has various medals won by the company. Byron Curtis Weston was the paper company founder and a Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1880-1883). Weston was the maternal grandfather of chef Julia Child.
advertising
business (commercial function)
paper (fiber product)
paper mills
exterior views
lieutenant governors
cooks
prints (visual works)
1 print ; 11 x 13 3/4 inches
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.02.331
11 x 13 3/4 (HxW)(inches)
Dalton (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Hardie, Robert Gordon, 1854-1904 (Delineator)
Byron Weston Company (Agency)
prints (visual works)
Weston, Byron Curtis, 1832-1898
Child, Julia (1912-2004)
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Prints and Engravings > Oversized > Massachusetts > Dalton-Danvers
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