Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection

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Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection

1878-1917

https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/171274/

The Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection is comprised of over 2,000 original negatives, copy prints of the negatives, and a small number of original prints. Coolidge developed his prints on delicately toned Aristo paper. Coolidge was active as a professional photographer from the late 1870s until 1917, which time period is congruent with the chronological coverage of the collection. Boston, Massachusetts is the best represented locality in the collection.

ca. 2,000 photographic prints; ca. 2,000 photographic negatives.

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Historic New England

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Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928

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Baldwin Coolidge was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on July 7, 1845. He was the son of Mary (Manning) and Benjamin Coolidge 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 pho...