Newton Times photographs. 1974-1979. U, Newton Upper Falls, V, Vandalism
(Mixed Material)

Box 46 of 51; Photographs 6909-7025.

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Collection consists of black and white photographs.

Newton Times photographs : U, Newton Upper Falls, V, Vandalism. Special Collections, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA.

Newton Free Library (330 Homer St., Newton, MA 02459), Special Collections.

Gift;,The Newton Times newspaper.

The Newton Times was a prize-winning, liberal weekly newspaper which published in Newton, Massachusetts from 1971 to 1980. It was an alternative voice created by anti-war activists who weren't content with coverage of the issues by local newspapers. It served as a force in the community as it reported on social issues, analyzed city and public school budgets, assessed and endorsed political candidates and published a voters' guide before each election. It pushed for removal of asbestos in Newton North High School and raised awareness of Newton's distinctive neighborhoods. It was forced to close because of reduced advertising revenue taken by competing weeklies. The Newton Free Library has the Newton Times on microfilm (v. 1, #1, Sept. 8, 1971-v. 9, #22, Jan. 23, 1980), as well as 51 boxes of photographs from the newspaper's archive and a collection of mock-up maps used with articles. Collection includes views of lines of unemployed people in front of Massachusetts State Employment Service, UNICEF volunteers, Voice of Women, Vietnamese refugees, visiting nurses, Ben Vereen, vandalism, especially in Newton public schools: graffiti, broken windows, missing panels, litter, broken saplings, dead alewife in Charles River. Also includes various views of the village of Newton Upper Falls: shops, churches, homes, public housing, residents, Echo Bridge, post office, schools, library branch, Stone Institute, former mill workers' houses and converted mill buildings, fire station, Upper Falls dam on the Charles River.

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