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SWD Part 1  

SWD-1 to SWD-101

SWD-2

Buell’s Band

Green, Congregational Church at 110 Broad St., background

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-5

Cottage colony Sachem’s Head at Prospect Avenue

From west side Vineyard Point, west to Loyal Ledge Lane

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-8

Dr. Joel Canfield house

78 Church St.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-11

John Redfield house Christ Church & William Todd, Esq. House

9 and 11 Park St.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-14

Charles Griswold civil war veteran

studio

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-17

Henry S. Davis

studio

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-20

old landing wharf at Sachem’s Head harbor

end of Colonial Rd.

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-23

Couple in sitting room or parlor

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-26

4 hunting dogs with 11 dead foxes on porch

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-29

Beach at Indian Cove

Indian Cove Rd. Cottage to right. now 4 Indian Cove Rd.

before 1911 Henry S. Davis

SWD-32

Nineveh Falls above bridge, with 3 women reposing on the rocks

Route 80 town line Madison-Killingworth

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-35

Spinning Mill pond, Spinning Mill

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-38

Burwell Carter cottage at Sachem’s Head built in 1885

31 Loyal Ledge Lane torn down 1911

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-41

Spinning Mill Pond ?, Spinning Mill

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-43

West family portrait

studio

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-46

bull that is young. background buildings indicate not Guilford

c. 1895

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-49

William P. Fowler House built in 1908. boat shop in back

40 High St.

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-52

4 soldiers dressed in World War I uniforms. 2nd man from right may be Frank M. White (see print P2669)

studio

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-55

soldiers, 4 at camp. portrait of old woman

studio

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-58

Earle Jacobs on bicycle on tall rock. Jacob’s Hill, Hanna’s Quarry

Possibly Hanna’s Quarry based on Shelton Dudley note

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-61

sailboat sailing in Indian Cove Bay

Pipe Bay, The Cedars (mainland pasture)

SWD-62

Marsh with old trolly wooden support

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-63

Indian Cove cottage, also known as Pipe Bay

probably Dan Sheehan’s lot 20-21 on original subdivision

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-66

Earle Jacobs shooting gun in woods

woods

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-69

group of people on large rock- Hanna’s Quarry north of the railroad track, on the east side of Lost Lake, Westwoods.

Westwoods Trail - white circle trail off Sam Hill Rd.

Sept 27,1899 Tom Stannard

SWD-72

Monroe’s Pharmacy and Hotel southwest corner of Green, corner of Whitfield St and Water St corner of Whitfield St and Water St at the southwest corner of the Green

corner of Whitfield St. and Water St. at the southwest corner of the Green

1910 Tom Stannard

SWD-75

Docks at Sluice Basin showing old coal pocket & conveyor system on the site of 505 Whitfield St., boats in foreground

Sluice Basin

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-78

Nineveh Bridge with group of people on rocks

Route 80 at Madison - Killingworth border

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-81

Johnnie’s Bridge over East River?

North Madison Rd. pre-Guilford Lakes subdivision?

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-85

Clarence E. Norton’s garage #78 Boston St On the right is the Ebenezer Parmelee house, #84 Boston St after the 1918 restoration

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-88

Knowles- Lombard coal pocket showing horse drawn wagon and railroad siding

43 Driveway, at the end near the railroad track

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-93

Regicide cellar interior with cider barrels

behind 6 Broad St. dates from Leete ownership of property

c. 1930 Oliver B. Husted

SWD-97

hound dogs, 5

outdoors

Oliver B. Husted

SWD-3

militia group on Green

Green

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-6

George Newhall cottage Sachem’s Head

1 Falcon Rd. viewed from Vineyard Pt.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-9

Sara & Henry Davis

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-12

First Congregational Church

110 Broad St.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-15

Lynde Kelsey House

21 South Fair St.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-18

New Church St. school

32 Church St.

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-21

Henry Whitfield State Museum. front

248 Old Whitfield St.

c. 1930 Shelton W. Dudley Sr.

SWD-24

interior dining room. colonial through Victorian furniture

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-27

Guilford baseball team, front left-right George Sullivan, New Haven boy-Berkett, William O’Neil, William Smith, Daniel O’Neil, Robert Butler. Rear row Roy Bartholomew, Edward Conway, Gerry Sullivan, Robert George, Peter Dougherty, John Galvin, William White

Green, northeast corner

1909 Henry S. Davis

SWD-30

view of Indian Cove beach

4 Indian Cove Rd.. Rollin Griffin cottage

before 1911 Henry S. Davis

SWD-33

Mill building and stone dam at Nineveh

Nineveh - townline Madison-Killingworth

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-36

Bluff Head looking west. Dr. West’s buggy and passengers on Durham Rd.

Bluff Head from field east of Durham Rd. (Route 77).

Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-39

portrait of five women

33 Fair St. Dr. West’s House ?

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

Brook, a tributary off West River near the Mill Pond according to Charles Hubbard’s book Old Guilford

c. 1895

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-44

a Victorian house -not Guilford

Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-47

oxen pair, buildings in background indicate not Guilford

c. 1908 Oliver B. Husted

SWD-50

hornbook. closeup view of an unidentified early school primer

unknown

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-53

soldier in World War I uniform, unidentified

studio

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-56

soldier, 2 pictures of the same unidentified soldier

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-59

sailboat. sailing off Mulberry Pt.

Indian Cove Bay. looking east toward Mulberry Pt.

SWD-62

Jones Bridge neighborhood from West River Frank O Blatchley house 201 Water St

SWD-62

Marsh with old trolly wooden support

SWD-64

man in snow

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-67

middle aged couple

outside

before July 1908 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-70

Cunningham House. people in foreground, man, woman, child in cart

223 Water St.

1910 Tom Stannard

SWD-73

Guilford Point House Hotel

Guilford Point off Seaside Ave.

Sept 1910 Tom Stannard

SWD-76

steam powered merry-go-round

31 Park St. behind the Guilford Town Hall?

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-79

Howlett’s Bridge over East River with Parmelee’s boat moored in foreground

Clapboard Hill Rd.

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-83

ice cutting by Norton and Roberts on the Mill Pond, ice sheds in background. Men and horse cutting ice

Mill Pond, North River St.

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-86

Clarence E. Norton’s garage #78 Boston St On the right is the Ebenezer Parmelee house, #84 Boston St after the 1918 restoration

May 1904 according to wall calendar in background (JPlant) Henry S. Davis

SWD-89

Shoreline Times Publishing interior showing composing room and printing press. Charles Scholey, owner, standing in background by the potbelly stove. The building burned in 1961 and was razed in 1962.

63 Whitfield St.

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-94

Regicide cellar interior. shows stairs

behind 6 Broad St.. cellar dates to Leete ownership

c. 1930 Oliver B. Husted

SWD-101

Rooster being posed on table, man on side

Oliver B. Husted

SWD-4

View of Sachem’s Head summer colony at Prospect Point looking across Bloody Cove Bay from Vineyard Point

Prospect Ave. Bloody Cove. From Vineyard Pt.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-7

Pelatiah Leete III House, occupied by Mr. Julian a tenant

559 Leete’s Island Rd.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-10

5 men 3 women, summer

c. 1919 Henry S. Davis

SWD-13

Pelatiah Leete III’s second house

559 Leete’s Island Rd

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-16

Bethel Assembly of God

Boston St., next to 246 Boston St.

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-19

Henry Whitfield State Museum NE side

248 Old Whitfield St.

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-22

High School graduation class at Guilford Institute, possibly

120 North Fair St.

c. 1930 Henry S. Davis

SWD-25

house interior, probably sitting room, colonial-federal furniture

possibly 33 Fair St.

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-28

A Guilford baseball team, GA on uniforms

yard

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-31

Lovers Lane

Lovers Lane north of current fairgrounds

c. 1910 Henry S. Davis

SWD-34

spillway at Town mill pond

North River St.

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-37

George’s casket and flowers in a parlor. Possibly George W.Fowler who died in 1887 at age 19.

c. 1895

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-40

Mr. Leete’s cattle. Probably E. Walter Leete in photo.

Leete’s Island probably

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-42

Naptha Launch Speed Away

West River off Chaffinch Island, probably

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-45

oxen pair, background buildings indicate not Guilford

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-48

Nineveh Falls

Madison-Killingworth town line. Rt. 80

Oliver B. Husted

SWD-51

New Haven County Farm Bureau truck with youths and pigs

Green, east side

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-54

World War I aviator in front of airplane

c. 1920 Henry S. Davis

SWD-57

Lynde Kelsey house

21 South Fair St.

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-60

pasture with pump. many rocks. cottages in background

Indian Cove. Daniel R Spencer’s pasture

SWD-62

Marsh with old trolly wooden support

SWD-62

Road houses barn location unknown

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-65

couple

c. 1915 Daniel Sheehan

SWD-68

2 women 1 man on veranda of a cottage

Mulberry Point area according to Shelton Dudley

1910 Tom Stannard

SWD-71

William Redfield house and W. W. Baldwin store

96 and #102 Broad St

1910 Tom Stannrd

SWD-74

Methodist Church

65 Whitfield St.

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-77

East River. boy fishing on bank. rowboat nearby

East River, north of Clapboard Hill bridge

c. 1895 Dr. Redfield B. West

SWD-80

mowing machine in open field

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-84

ice cutting by Norton and Roberts on the Mill Pond, ice sheds in background. Men and horse cutting ice

Mill Pond, North River St.

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-87

Griswold store, probably, interior showing display counters, fabrics customers and workers

102 Broad St. probably

c. 1915 Henry S. Davis

SWD-90

Guilford Savings bank interior with three tellers. Left to right Charles Griswold, Edmund F. Dudley and Alfred R. Griswold

69-73 Whitfield St

Oliver B. Husted

SWD-96

gravestone with fresh flowers on the grave. DIVINE engraved on the stone

c. 1930

SWD-1

Guilford Telephone Exchange

25 Whitfield St. according to Shelton Dudley notes

c. 1910 Oliver B. Husted

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