(See also Bacon Family Papers, 1807-1975)

Numerous family photographs in varying formats, including some early daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, are found in this collection. An early daguerreotype, from about 1850 shows Joseph Bacons Greek revival house on Washington Street.

The earliest photograph, The Deacons Party from about 1870, is of Joseph N. Bacon (1813-1896) and his family.

There are a few small photographs in original frames and several albums including one that contains a number of members of the Eliot Church and an early view of the church.

An album by Herbert M. Bacon (1866-1958) contains a large collection of Newton and New England views. A number of the images are identified as being from the 1870s; they appear to be copies of earlier photographs. Most of the images, taken 1890s-1910s, are identified. There are views of Concord, Lexington, and Littleton, along with family summer homes in Essex and Magnolia. There are views of the interior of the old Newton Bank and the Woodward house (Fairlee Road), and views of the Newton and Chestnut Hill reservoirs.

Copies of many of the photographs from album were made in 1982. They include family homes at 37 Channing Street, 17 Fairview Street, the Bacon house Washington Street, and the Henry Fuller house on Centre Street; views of Farlow Park and Cabot Woods summer and winter, as well as gathering ice on Bulloughs Pond, views of the Charles River at Upper and Lower Falls and Riverside, and the Eliot Memorial with fields and Strongs pond in the distance.

Finding Aids: Partial
References:
Vital Records of Newton, Collection files and news clippings