These glass plate negatives depict the State Normal School and the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts at the end of the 19th century. Images include the Normal School buildings, campus and students, as well as scenes of the town such as the Central Square, railroad station, firehouse, church buildings, houses, and local businesses.
Bowman's Express delivery wagon, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, ca. 1880–1895
Bridgewater Normal School students from the 120th Class
posed in a park-like setting on the school's campus, 1896
Group of female Normal School students with
tennis rackets in Boyden Park, ca. 1890–1896
Marshall House, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, ca. 1880–1895
Normal School students on horse-drawn cart, 1892-94
Two students in a dorm room in the Normal Hall dormitory building at the
State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, ca. 1892–1894