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EMERSON PHOTOS |
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This project, Historic
Images of Longmeadow was funded by a grant from
the Community Preservation Act in order to
preserve a large number of glass negatives of
historic images that are owned by
the Longmeadow Historical Society. These
images, which were stored in the basement of the
Storrs House, were taken by Mr. Paesiello
Emerson, a resident of Longmeadow, during the
period from 1900 to his death in 1927. Most of the glass plate
negatives were in satisfactory condition but some of the
glass plates were beginning
to deteriorate. In order to preserve
these historic images, the glass negatives were
digitally scanned and then received some minor
retouching to improve the quality.
During the month of May 2014 there was a
exhibit- Through
the Lens- Longmeadow 100 Years Ago
at Storrs Library in which a series of these
photographs were on display. Lowere
resolution digital images from this exhibit as
well as some additional ones are now being made available
through this website of the Longmeadow
Historical Society and are displayed in the
slide show above.
To obtain larger size high resolution prints
suitable for framing, please contact the
Longmeadow Historical Society for additional
information at
LongmeadowHS@gmail.com or at
(413) 567-3400.
For additional biographical information on Mr.
Emerson please read the
article
from the Town Crier by Linda Abrams, Storrs
House Museum Curator.
Digital Commonwealth- Boston Public
Library Project
As part of the Digital Commonwealth project our
large collection of Emerson glass plate
negatives were scanned at high resolution by the
Boston Public Library. The large majority
of these photos were taken in Longmeadow but
some of them were taken in other Massachusetts
communities including Spencer, Holyoke,
Springfield, Framingham, and East Brookfield.
The entire collection of 1500+ Emerson photos
are now online on the Digital Commonwealth
project
website.
This Emerson Collection
owned by the Longmeadow Historical Society and
found on the Digital Commonwealth
website is licensed for use under a
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
These photos
may not be used for commercial purposes without
a license from the Longmeadow Historical Society.
If you are interested in using any
of the photos found on the Digital
Commonwealth
website or this Longmeadow
Historical Society
website for commercial
purposes, please send a email to
LongmeadowHS@gmail.com for information
regarding licensing.
Virtual Tour of
Longmeadow- 1920
Visit Longmeadow as it was being developed into
a suburb of Springfield in the early 20th
century. Using the large number of
Longmeadow photos taken by Paesiello Emerson
from 1900 - 1920 that are in our collection + a
1920 vintage map of Longmeadow, the Longmeadow
Historical Society has developed a "virtual
tour of Longmeadow".
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