Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928
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Baldwin Coolidge was born in July 1845 in Woburn, Massachusetts to Benjamin and Mary (Manning) Baldwin. During the Civil war, he served in Company K of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment of the Light Artillery and was discharged in 1866. He married Lucy Ann Plumer in February of the same year. Like his grandfather, he worked as an engineer and held the post of city engineer in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Changing careers and moving to Boston, Coolidge established his first photography shop at 147 Tremont Street. In 1904, he opened a studio at his last location, 410A Boylston Street in Boston. Due to worsening health, he left New England to live with his daughter in Pasadena, California. Resuming his artistic vocations, Coolidge sketched and painted in watercolors. He died in 1928, and his ashes were returned to his hometown of Woburn for burial.Coolidge was a prolific photographer, amassing more than 20,000 negatives during his lifetime. Among the many types of images Coolidge captured, he focused his lens on life in Oak Bluffs, Nantucket, and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the streets and buildings of Boston, pastoral and marine views in Windham, New Hampshire and Biddeford, Maine, and vessels of all kinds. In addition, Coolidge was staff photographer for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for thirty years
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Occupation: Artist
Note: "...in Pasadena, California. Resuming his artistic vocations, Coolidge sketched and painted in watercolors".
Occupation: Engineer
Relation: employeeOf Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Relation: associatedWith Woods Hole oceanographic institution
Place: Hull (Mass.)
Place: Martha's Vineyard
Place: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Place: Boston
Found Data: Massachusetts--Boston
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Place: Nantucket
Place: Boston
Place: MBLWHOI Library, Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Place: Boston
Place: Biddeford
Place: Windham (N.H.)
Place: Mount Washington (N.H.)
Place: Pasadena
Subject: Artists
Subject: Ships
Subject: Black-and
Subject: Black-and-white photography
Subject: Building
Subject: Churches
Subject: Farmhouses
Subject: Fishing schooners
Subject: Hotels
Subject: Public libraries
Subject: Lifesaving stations
Subject: Photographers
Subject: Religious buildings
Biographical Sketch: Baldwin Coolidge was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on July 7, 1845. He was the son of Mary (Manning) and BenjaminCoolidge and the great-grandson of Loammi Baldwin, Revolutionary War patriot and engineer for the Middlesex Canal. Coolidge grew up in Lawrence and became that city’s first engineer at age 33 before he changed careers and opened up his first photography studio in Boston in 1878. The photographer returned to live in a Baldwin family home in Woburn in 1889, around the time that the photographs of the Woburn Public Library were taken, living there through 1908. At the same time he continued to maintain a studio in Boston. He died in California in 1928; his ashes are interred in Woodbrook Cemetery in Woburn.
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BiogHist
Occupation: Photographers
Relation: associatedWith Woburn Public Library (Woburn, Mass.)
Place: Woburn
Place: Boston
Found Data: Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)
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Place: Woburn
Subject: Public libraries
Birth 7 Jul 1845
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death 13 Dec 1928 (aged 83)
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Woodbrook Cemetery
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Date: 1845-07-07 (Birth) - 1928-12-13 (Death)
Name Entry: Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928
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Place: Woburn
Place: Pasadena
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Place: Boston
Found Data: Boston (Mass.)
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