Series includes 920 photographs documenting the construction of, and repairs or damage to structures built by the Essex Company for mill power infrastructure and general improvements in the City of Lawrence. There are also a significant number of views of the river and various parts of the city. The images were produced between the 1880s and the 1950s, although there is one photograph of the building of the Great Stone Dam circa 1846. The majority of the photographs were taken between approximately 1890 and 1910. A local photographer, James McEvoy, working under contract for the Essex Company, produced a number of the images from this period.
notes: Approximately half of the photographs were attached to documentation that made the context clear. The other half had at some time been separated from their original location without information about context. There is explanatory text, however, on the backs of many of the photographs.
Collection
Essex Company Collection