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  • Collection: Barre Photographs

Spaulding High School

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Postcard featuring a photograph of Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont. The Robert Burns monument is visible in the center of the image.

Main Street During I.O.O.F. Week

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the Reynolds block of Main St. in Barre, Vermont. The buildings are decorated with banners and bunting in celebration of International Order of Odd Fellows Week. Pedestrians and horse drawn carriages pass in front…

Parade During I.O.O.F. Week

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Postcard featuring a photograph of a parade on May 18, 1909, in celebration of International Odd Fellows Week. Five automobiles are seen driving down the middle of Main St. in Barre, Vermont, while hundreds of onlookers line the sidewalks and spill…

Italian Baptist Church

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the Italian Baptist Church in Barre, Vermont. The church was built on North Brook St. in 1906-1908. Doric columns, friezes, and sculptures, carved of Barre granite, decorate the front of the church. The inscription…

Fire Station

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the fire station on North Main St. in Barre, Vermont. The fire station was built in 1904, and this photograph was probably taken not long after that. Two horse-drawn fire engines are posed in front of the station,…

Cliff Street Scene

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Postcard featuring a photograph of a view of Cliff Street in Barre, Vermont. Several houses are visible along the tree-lined street, and in the foreground two children are seated in the grass by the street.

Averill Block of Main Street

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the Averill block of Main Street in Barre, Vermont. About 20 people are standing or sitting in front of the buildings. Granite curbing is in piles in front of the building. The photograph is blurry and not much…

Currier Park and surrounding area

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Postcard featuring an oblique view looking out over the town of Barre, Vermont. Currier Park is in the center of the image.

Camp Street School

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the Camp Street School in Barre, Vermont. A child is sitting on the front steps. A handwritten note on the back says "Camp St. School, Barre, Vermont, where Harold and Mary Paterson attended in early 1900 before…

"Old Brown Ark, Barre Vt."

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Postcard featuring a photograph of the wood frame store building known as the "old Brown Ark," a wooden frame building at 36-40 North Main Street in Barre, Vermont. This building was replaced by the Granite Block around in 1887. Five people in hats…

"Pioneer transportation of Barre Granite"

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Postcard featuring a photograph of a giant block of granite being hauled along Main St. in Barre, Vermont. Twenty yoked cattle are pulling the granite on a low cart. Many people are standing in the street to watch. At the left side of the image, the…

Calder & Richardson Railroad Hopper Car on Coal Trestle

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A railroad hopper car is shown on top of a wooden trestle designed for off-loading of coal at the Calder & Richardson yards in Barre, Vermont.