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This is a picture of the sons of Orestes T. and Mabel Piper Doe. Mabel Piper Doe was from the twelfth graduating class at what is now known as Worcester State College. The picture is of her two sons at the age of 20 months. From this picture one can…

Elizabeth Boyd was a girl who had a lot of trouble finding where she belonged. She was first admitted by recommendation of Miss Woods from W.C.F.S. and returned a several number of times by request of Miss Woods. Elizabeth would stay with foster…

An apprentice teacher with a group of students during a reading lesson, first grade, Dix Street School, 19 January 1893.

Pageants in Worcester Normal School were a big hit before it became Worcester State College. In this 1915 or 1916 photo are a group of girls part of the "May Day Pageant."

This image, captured from a moving vehicle, shows Union Station in 2008. The building had been used as a train station from 1909 until 1975, and then abandoned. Since 1995 it has been redeveloped into a transportation center for train, commuter rail,…

Albert Ashton, born in Clinton MA and raised in Southbridge MA. He was drafted into World War II and served with the US Army in France as a guard over Nazi prisoners of war. Also in this archive are items that were given to him by prisoners, and a…

Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic parish church. This structure was completed in 1917. Between 1885 and 1893, on this site there was a building, the Mission of St. Anne, to serve French-speaking Catholics in the city. The Reverend J. Edmund Perrault…

Washburn was the Worcester city marshal through most of the years between 1872 and 1892. This photograph of him was printed in Herbert M. Sawyer and R. E. Murphy, History of the Police Department 1674-1900 (1900). Washburn authored the 1890 "City…

Photograph, undated, of Union Station. From the street files of the Worcester Public Library Local History Collection.

Photograph of the Old Union Station, undated. From the street files of the Worcester Public Library Local History Collection.