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P-1001

Moving State St School to Seaside Avenue for Reuben Hill. The school stood near where Ruth Nettleton lives now (1975). Reuben Hill made it into a house

P-1004

Machine used to cut ice

P-1007

Oxen hauling a log

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Old Davis homestead Nut plains, stood at the end of Nut Plains Road. Rob Davis. Fred Davis grandfather's house. April

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Oxen ploughing a field

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Several house-drawn wagons on a road

P-1019

The sluice at Guilford harbor. The stone building is part of the present (1975) Captain's Table Restaurant. c1940

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Thrashing grain with a flail

P-1025

Winter scene, horse drawn sled, dog

P-1028

Railroad Changing over track West River to Footes Curve Taken near Mulberry Point Bridge looking weSt January 1940

P-1031

Railroad Changing over track West River to Footes Curve January 1940

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Team of oxen, negative CDH-241

P-1037

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St Left, John Petzel & Joe Slovinski early 1930's

P-1040

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St Jim Bergen standing over to right

P-1047

Men and women watching sailboats. View looking west from rocks in front of Sachems Head Yacht Club before the Yacht Club was built. c1897

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8x10 photo of Christmas decorations inside Henry Benevento’s house on Lake Drive. Henry Benevento near the window. 448 Kintz house 1910 c1975

P-1054

Interior of Spencer Foundry 20 Fair St built 1872

P-1057

Cider press on River St in barn behind 6 Broad St the Caleb Stone house

P-1060

Interior of Harvey Leete’s Blacksmith Shop, next to Samuel Shelley House (CDH album p.19)

P-1062

Auction at Rock House, State Street (CDH album p.22)

P-1065

Nortontown Sawmill owned by Deacon John Norton (CDH album p.25)

P-1068

Barns of Samuel Stone House (CDH album 32b)

P-1071

Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34c)

P-1074

Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34f)

P-1077

Harvesting ice at Mill Pond (ice houses have been razed) (CDH album 35c)

P-1081

Launching Grey Dawn built by William Fowler in West River at Jones Bridge (CDH album p.36)

P-1084

Launching Grey Dawn built by William Fowler in West River at Jones Bridge (CDH album p.36)

P-1087

Anna Fowler of North Guilford weaving at Old Stone House in Ell taken down in 1930 (Hubbard Album p49)

P-1090

Robert Davis getting salt hay (CDH album 52b)

P-1093

Plowing (CDH album 52e)

P-1096

Robert Davis and son Eliot haying (CDH album 53b)

P-1099

Raking Hay (CDH album 53e)

P-1102

Haying (CDH album 54b)

P-1105

Nelson Norton 1906 (CDH album 54e)

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Charcoal pit

P-1005

Harvesting ice. According to Earle Leete this began about 1890-1900 and ended with electric ice boxes

P-1008

Oxen hauling a log

P-1011

Oxen pulling a farm wagon

P-1014

Two horses pulling chain CHARLES D. HUBBARD

P-1017

Horse drawn hay mower in operation

P-1020

Boat being dragged to West River, taken on High St Persons R-L Lew Norton-Herbert Jones, Rob Madison

P-1023

Possibly behind the Thomas Scranton House 1810 on State St (Compare to Page 26 of Hubbard book)

P-1026

Mr. Lewis Anderson and his boat Marion

P-1029

Railroad Changing over track West River to Footes Curve Houses in the distance are on Lower Whitfield St and Seaside Avenue. January 1940

P-1032

Harvesting ice at the Mill Pond. According to Earle Leete this began about 1890-1900 and ended with electric iceboxes

P-1035

Team of oxen in winter with sleigh negative CHD239_

P-1038

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St Left, John Petzel standing on right

P-1041

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St Jim Bergen standing over to right

P-1049

Barns at 284 Clapboard Hill Rd. Henry Dudley house on far right. Parmelee brothers on the right. c1900

P-1052

Children at Easter egg hunt. Guilford Lakes School. Date March 22, 1965

P-1055

Interior of 20 Fair St Spencer Foundry built in 1872

P-1058

Deacon John Norton at gristmill (CDH album p.4)

P-1061

Interior of Harvey Leete’s Blacksmith Shop, next to Samuel Shelley House (CDH album p.19)

P-1063

Coal Dock at Sluice (CDH album p.24)

P-1066

Rear of Miles Dudley House (1707) corner of York and Fair Streets. Edith Hubbard (center), Ida Hubbard (right) grapevines (CDH album p.26)

P-1069

William Stone, Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34a)

P-1072

Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34d)

P-1075

At Guilford Sluice (CDH album 35a)

P-1079

Spillway at Mill Pond (1906) (CDH album 35e)

P-1082

Launching Grey Dawn built by William Fowler in West River at Jones Bridge (CDH album p.36)

P-1085

Mill Pond and ice houses (CDH album 48d)_

P-1088

Harvesting oysters or clams (through ice) (CDH album 51c)

P-1091

Robert Davis getting salt hay (CDH album 52b)

P-1094

Carting witch hazel (CDH album 52f)

P-1097

Robert Davis and son Eliot haying (CDH album 53c)

P-1100

Raking Hay (CDH album 53f)

P-1103

Nelson Norton (CDH album 54c)

P-1003

Charcoal pit

P-1006

Harvesting ice at Mill Pond. The building has been razed. According to Earle Leete this began about 1890-1900 and ended with electric iceboxes

P-1009

Robert Davis

P-1012

Spencer's barn on Three Mile Course Road near the Medad Tavern

P-1015

Julius Engelman and his wife in a horse drawn cart. They lived in the Black house on Boston St

P-1018

Earle Leete identified this as an ice boat in an old cove (now 1976 marsh) at Sachen’s Head (Bloody Cove according to Joel Helander)

P-1021

George Rolf's Livery Stable on 26 Water St about 22 or 24 next to present (1975) shoe repair shop. betw.1891-1905

P-1024

The sluice Earle Leete said the present - 1976 - Captain’s Table would be on the right, the Stone House on the left

P-1027

Cattle George Hull corner of Dunk Rock Road and road to the Cox School. c1940

P-1030

Railroad Changing over track West River to Footes Curve January 1940

P-1033

The Mill Pond - Harvesting ice. According to Earle Leete this began about 1890-1900 and ended with electric iceboxes

P-1036

Oxen team and man

P-1039

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St John Bergen standing to right

P-1042

Men working inside Spencer’s Foundry at 20 Fair St Joe Slivinski on left, next is John Petzel Black man is Lester Moore

P-1050

Annual Regatta, People on rocks watching sailboats. Yacht Club built 1898 Labor Day 1900

P-1053

Plating room inside Spencer Foundry on 20 Fair St where castings were submersed in tanks for brass and nickel plating

P-1056

Worker inside Spencer Foundry 20 Fair St built in 1872

P-1059

Sameul Barner at Sachems Head ploughing field with ox (CDH album p.5)

P-1062

(A) Interior of Harvey Leete’s Blacksmith Shop, next to Samuel Shelley House (CDH album p.19)

P-1064

Nortontown Sawmill owned by Deacon John Norton (CDH album p.25)

P-1067

Rear of Thomas Scranton House (1810) State Street (CDH album p.26)

P-1070

Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34b)

P-1073

Stones Cider Mill (rear of 6 Broad Steet) (CDH album 34e)

P-1076

Tide Gates at East River (CDH album 35b)

P-1080

Spillway at Mill Pond (1906) (CDH album 35f)

P-1083

Launching Grey Dawn built by William Fowler in West River at Jones Bridge (CDH album p.36)

P-1086

Weaving loom (Hubbard Album p49)

P-1089

Robert Davis getting salt hay (CDH album 52a)

P-1092

Robert Davis getting salt hay (CDH album 52b)

P-1095

Robert Davis and son Eliot haying (CDH album 53a)

P-1098

Robert Davis and son Eliot haying (CDH album 53d)

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Haying (CDH album 54a)

P-1104

Nelson Norton (CDH album 54d)

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