Newton Times photographs. 1918, 1976-1979. Nonantum, Oak Hill, O, P, Newtonville, Newton Corner, West Newton, Newton Highlands
(Mixed Material)

Box 28 of 51; Photographs 4781-4932A.

Notable figures identified in photographs (for complete list of names, see inventory sheet in box): Theodore Mann, Paul Wiggin, Paul Michael Glaser, Andre Prieu.

Musical groups shown are: All Newton Music School, Wheaton Trio, Quadrivium, Newton South High School Newton Pro Musica, Greenwood Consort, Happiness Barber Shop Quartet, Opera Company of Boston, All Newton Elementary School Chorus, Angier Community Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Dixieland Jazz Band, Newton Chamber Orchestra, Newton Choral Society, Newton North High School Brothers and Sisters, Rocco and the Celestials, Meadowbrook Chorus, Newton North High School Marching Band, M.U.S.E., Newton Symphony Orchestra, Suzuki School, Voice of the Turtle, Charles River Chamber Players, Holy Family Defenders (Drum and Bugle Corps). Other inclusions are: Novitiate land with tower, Newton Playground, Newton Youth for Political Action, Visiting Nurses, NAACP, Newton Community Service Centers, National Council of Jewish Women, Newton Seafoods, Inc., Norumbega Workshop, Bowen School Family Picnic, NEVEST Workshop, Newton Community Development Foundation (NCDF), Hamlet Street project, Newton Redevelopment Authority.

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Collection consists of black and white photographs, sepia photograph, contact strips and photocopies of photographs.

Newton Times photographs : Nonantum, Oak Hill, O, P, Newtonville, Newton Corner, West Newton, Newton Highlands. Special Collections, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA.

Newton Free Library (330 Homer St., Newton, MA 02459), Special Collections.

Gift;,The Newton Times newspaper.

The Newton Times was a prize-winning, liberal weekly newspaper which published in Newton, Massachusetts from 1971 to 1980. It was an alternative voice created by anti-war activists who weren't content with coverage of the issues by local newspapers. It served as a force in the community as it reported on social issues, analyzed city and public school budgets, assessed and endorsed political candidates and published a voters' guide before each election. It pushed for removal of asbestos in Newton North High School and raised awareness of Newton's distinctive neighborhoods. It was forced to close because of reduced advertising revenue taken by competing weeklies. The Newton Free Library has the Newton Times on microfilm (v. 1, #1, Sept. 8, 1971-v. 9, #22, Jan. 23, 1980), as well as 51 boxes of photographs from the newspaper's archive and a collection of mock-up maps used with articles. Collection includes views predominantly of Nonantum and Oak Hill, but also of Newtonville, Newton Corner, West Newton and Newton Highlands. Nonantum is shown as a vibrant neighborhood - its residents, shop owners, block parties, fairs, festas, Christmas parties, clambakes, its religious institutions: the synagogue on Adams Street, Our Lady Help of Christians Church, its associations: American Legion Post 440, Boy's Club, Venerable Sons of Italy, Nonantum Multi-Service Center, its schools: Carr School, Newton Catholic High School, Garden City Activity Center. Includes one of the last photographs of Silver Lake as a derelict pond bordering a parking lot. One photograph of storefront of John W. Murphy's grocery in 1918 in Nonantum, two men standing at entrance. Collection includes various views of other Newton villages - post office workers, Ball House at 33 Waban St. in Newton Corner, Memorial School, Lincoln-Eliot School, Mt. Ida College, All Newton Music School, Mayor's Prayer Breakfast of 1978.

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