Creator Record
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Metadata
Name |
Tasker, W. Orin |
Occupation |
Real estate dealer, music merchant and piano tuner |
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Bradford Academy, Academy Hall, Bradford, Haverhill - Negative, Glass Plate
Bradford Academy, Academy Hall, Bradford, Haverhill. Brick, four stories plus basement. View of front and right sides. Trees on the front lawn, with semicircular access road. Inscription on housing: "No. 83 2d - best negatives." Image probably circa 1890s. Photographer is W. Orin Tasker. Lantern slide: see HE Senter GLS 5-47.
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Bradford Academy, Academy Hall, Bradford, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Bradford Academy, Academy Hall, Bradford, Haverhill. Brick, four stories plus basement. View of front and right sides. Trees on the front lawn, with semicircular access road. Image probably circa 1890s; photograph by W. Orin Tasker. Label on slide: "HS2.8 162 Bradford Academy / W. Orin Tasker." Copy of original glass negative, see HE Senter G6x8 19-3. This slide may be later.
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City Hospital, Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill - Negative, Glass Plate
City Hospital, Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill. Three story clapboard building, mansard roof, dormers, quoins, front porch, portico with small balcony on second floor, small balcony on third floor, two story wing in the rear on the right. Carriage house or stable on the left. Small wood summer house building on the right. Lawn with trees. View of front and right sides. Inscription with another print on file: "Original Haverhill Hospital by Kenoza Lake /...
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City Hospital, Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill - Print, Photographic
City Hospital, Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill. Three story clapboard building, mansard roof, dormers, quoins, front porch, portico with small balcony on second floor, small balcony on third floor, two story wing in the rear on the right. Carriage house or stable on the left. Small wood summer house building on the right. Lawn with trees. View of front and right sides. Inscription with another print on file: "Original Haverhill Hospital by Kenoza Lake /...
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Currier School, High Street, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Currier School, High Street, Haverhill. Four stories including basement, brick, mansard roof, dormers, clock tower at center of roof. View of front and left sides. Fence in front, trees lining the street. House on the right. Label on slide: "Currier School;" printed on mount: "W. Orin Tasker."
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Elizabeth Home for Children, Main Street, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Elizabeth Home for Children, Main Street, Haverhill. Brick, three stories; half tower with tent roof front center, portico with steps leading up to entrance, ivy growing on the front of the building. View of front and right sides. A woman in a dark dress and a woman in a plaid dress are on the stairs on the right with a group of ten children; other people are visible inside through the windows. Trees in front and on the left. Trolley tracks in th...
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Fireman's Monument, Hilldale Cemetery, Haverhill, 1889 - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Fireman's Monument, Hilldale Cemetery, Haverhill, when located there. Dedicated May 30, 1889. Designed by Calvin H. Weeks; carved at Cararra, Italy. Weeks was also Mayor of Haverhill in 1884. Fireman holding a hose, in "fire laddie" position with his feet holding the hose in place. Dedication inscription on plaque, with "H. F. D." at bottom. View of front and right sides. Later moved to Linwood Cemetery. Inscription on housing of original glass n...
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First Parish Church, Haverhill - Negative, Glass Plate
First Parish Church, Min Street at Crescent Place, Haverhill. Two stories, central tower, gable roof, stained glass windows. View of front and left sides. Alpheus C. Morse, architect. Haverhill High School in the background. Photo by W. Orin Tasker; inscription on emulsion side: "Tasker 1 Plain." Image probably circa 1890s.
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Groveland Bridge, Groveland and Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Groveland Bridge, crossing the Merrimack River, Groveland and Haverhill. Haverhill may be on the right. View from the shore. Typed on slide mount: "W. Orin Tasker / 19 Bartlett St."
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House, interior, unidentified, Haverhill - Negative, Glass Plate
House, interior, unidentified. Label on glass: "Tasker neg / a Haverhill house / Bradley's Mill painting on wall." The Bradley's Mill painting is on the left wall, above an etagere with a round mirror. Through a door, a staircase is in the background. The right wall has a curtained entrance to another room with an upright piano. Furniture includes chairs, small tables; other small framed prints or paintings on the walls. Photo by W. Orin Tasker, ...
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Lumber schooner moored near Chase's Wharf, Merrimack River, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Unidentified lumber schooner moored near Chase's Wharf, Merrimack River, Haverhill. View from the Merrimack River with sailboat in the foreground, Haverhill Bridge partially visible on the left. Lumber on the dock. Sign on the right partially visible: "Ingalls' ." Buildings including City Hall visible in the background. Image probably late 19th or early 20th century. See slightly less cropped version HQ5 senter GLS 1-18 (with inscription on mat, ...
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Lumber schooner moored near Chase's Wharf, Merrimack River, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Unidentified lumber schooner moored near Chase's Wharf, Merrimack River, Haverhill. View from the Merrimack River with sailboat in the foreground, Haverhill Bridge partially visible on the left. Lumber on the dock. Sign on the right partially visible: "Ingalls' ." Buildings including City Hall visible in the background. Inscription on mat, reverse side: "W. Orin Tasker 19 Bartlett St. Haverhill, Mass." Round sticker with number: 32. From a series...
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Main Street at the corner of Summer Street, winter scene, Haverhill - Negative, Glass Plate
Main Street at the corner of Summer Street, winter scene, Haverhill. Snow on the ground, night, ice covered trees lit by streetlights. View looking south toward Haverhill Bridge from the side of Moses Nichols' house opposite Newell Street. Haverhill City Hall tower visible on the right. Glass broken. Photo by W. Orin Tasker, probably early 20th century.
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Merrimack River, sailboats near Smiley's Wharf, Haverhill - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Merrimack River, one and two-masted sailboats, other small boats moored near Smiley's Wharf, Haverhill. Quadrilateral sails on the sailboats; men at the stern of several boats. Smiley's Wharf in the background. Typed on slide mount: "W. Orin Tasker / 19 Bartlett St. / Haverhill."
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Merrimack River, Water Street, Haverhill, flood or freshet, 1895 - Negative, Glass Plate
Merrimack River, Water Street, Haverhill, flood or freshet, 1895. River on the left, Water Street on the right, buildings, smokestack, boat moored at the shore. Inscription on housing: Water St - Flood 1895 opp. cemetery." Photo by W. Orin Tasker.
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Merrimack Street, parade of circus elephants, ca. 1901 - Negative, Glass Plate
Parade of nine or ten elephants, Merrimack Street, circa 1901. Seven of the elephants have riders, three have elaborate saddles (howdahs), and the parade is led by an elephant with a woman rider in costume. A patron has identified the circus as probably Forepaugh & Sells Brothers. The parade is passing in front of Mitchell & Company's store, 76-86 Merrimack Street. A crowd lines the street and people are looking out of the windows of the multisto...
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Mrs. Strafford, Mrs. Daniel Woodman's parlor, 1890 - Negative, Glass Plate
Mrs. Strafford, in Mrs. Daniel Woodman's parlor. A woman with grey hair is seated in a chair in a corner of a parlor. Windows on both walls, chair and small table. A framed portrait of a man is on the wall on the left, and a framed print of Dover, New Hampshire is on the wall on the right. Inscription on housing: "Mrs. Daniel Woodman's parlor / Aug 1890 / Print of Dover, NH on wall / Strafford, Mrs. / Tasker." Location (town) not identified. Phot...
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North Congregational Church, 10th Anniversary, Main Street, Haverhill, 1890 - Negative, Glass Plate
North Congregational Church, 10th Anniversary, Main Street, Haverhill, September 1890. Interior, hall with alcove on far wall, grand piano decorated with greens and a photograph on the right. Above the alcove is a garland and a sign: "1880 Rejoice, And Again I Say Rejoice 1890," and in the alcove are easels with portraits of a man and a woman. Photo by W. Orin Tasker.
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Old Ladies Home, Main Street, Haverhill, 1889 - Negative, Glass Plate
Old Ladies Home, Main Street, Haverhill. Brick, four stories including basement, flat roof with end gables. Engraved stone inset above entrance reads "76" and "Old Ladies Home." View of front and right sides. Picket fence in front, trolley tracks in the street. Other buildings or houses on the left. Inscription on housing: "Old Ladies Home 1889. No 65 No 2 negative." Photographer is W. Orin Tasker.
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Old Ladies Home, Main Street, Haverhill, 1889 - Transparency, Lantern Slide
Old Ladies Home, Main Street, Haverhill. Brick, four stories including basement, flat roof with end gables. Engraved stone inset above entrance reads "76" and "Old Ladies Home." View of front and right sides. Picket fence in front, trolley tracks in the street. Other buildings or houses on the left. Inscription on housing of original glass plate negative: "Old Ladies Home 1889." Photographer is W. Orin Tasker.
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