[PDF]George of Lowell Collection Inventory

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
CENTER FOR LOWELL HISTORY


GEORGE OF LOWELL COLLECTION
GEORGE POIRIER, PHOTOGRAPHER


Note: Any photograph or negative that came to us unidentified will be identified by subject
whenever possible, otherwise will just be noted as "unidentified." Often times a request for
reproduction was identified by the person making the request, and does not necessarily mean
that the photo/negative is of that person.

FOLDERS W/PAPER CLIPS: PHOTOS NOT TAKEN BY GEORGE OF LOWELL

FOLDERS W/PHOTOS UPRIGHT: UPRIGHT PHOTOS NOT TAKEN BY GEORGE OF LOWELL

BOX 1 ACCIDENT-BUILDINGS/HOMES

FOLDER 1-54


Accident scene

Acre neighborhood view

Advertisement - Merrimack House; National Theatre; Sunday Advertiser
Aerial View -Lowell (city of) Master Model 1958, Planning Department
Animal - Dog

Animal - Horses (2) w/male
Anniversary 75 th cake
Artwork - (5)

Artwork - from Interior church walls/windows
Artwork - Creche - Nativity Set
Automobile-Antique @ Coq D'Or (?), Dracut
Automobile-Antique w/couple
Automobile-Antique on Dummer Street.

Automobile-Antique w/George DeMoulas, family group
Automobile-Antique @ Joseph's Parking Lot, group in auto.

Automobiles - CA 1950s

Automobiles - Race Cars (incl. George Poirier sitting in race car #151 Ben &Dave)
Automobile Damage - Car

Automobile Damage -Truck on University Avenue
Beaudette, Mr. - Damage to interior/exterior of home
Beaudoin (T) Market - Staff - Identified
Bisson, Roland - Mill Workers (males/females)

Boats at dock incl. steamer
Body Scars/Markings
Body Scars/Markings - Harrigan, David
Boston & Maine RR-Shifting Engine 1920



Building/Homes - Apartment Complexes
Building/Homes - Archambault Towers, Merrimack Street
Building/Homes - Boisvert (Jacques) Residence, Hildreth Street.

Building/Homes - Bradley Building Sale- L to R: Manny Pacheco, Mr. Bradley,
Tom Saab, Louis Saab, unknown.

Building/Homes - Butler (Ben) Residence

Building/Homes - Central Savings Bank, Flat Iron Building at Central and Prescott
Streets

Building/Homes - Church (interior views)

Building/Homes - City Hall - Lowell (negative)

Building/Homes - Coburn Mission

Building/Homes - George Street #21

Building/Homes - Georgetowne North Townhouse - Condo

Building/Homes - Living Room (interior) w/male

Building/Homes - Lopez (on door)

Building/Homes - Louisburg Square
Building/Homes - Lowell City Hall
Building/Homes - LTI, Olsen Building
Building/Homes - Merrimack Valley Welders Supply
Building/Homes - Mountain View, Nashua, NH
Building/Homes - Old Durkee House
Building/Homes - Pawtucket Arms
Building/Homes - Pawtucket Street high rises
Building/Homes - Saint Jeanne D'Arc Church
Building/Homes - Saint Joseph's Hospital
Building/Homes - Shattuck Street #22
Building/Homes - Speare House, Entrance Door
Building/Homes - View from Standish Street
Building/Homes - Unidentified

Building/Homes - Unidentified business interior w/employees

BOX 2 BUSINESSES-COUPLES

FOLDER 1-82


Businesses - Anton's - architectural drawing
Businesses - Bar interior w/bartender (unidentified)

Businesses - Beauchemin (R.A.) Co. - Product Display

Businesses - Beaudoin Market - Staff identified

Businesses - Butler Chevrolet Toyota

Businesses - Constantine Construction Company

Businesses - Cyn-Zyme Laboratories - Septic Tank Conditioner Product

Businesses - Dabalis Oil Co. Truck

Businesses - Descheneaux Bros. Dairy Truck

Businesses - Diners: Al's Diner; Bob's Diner; Monument Diner; Old Colony;





Peerless Diner; Palace Diner

Businesses - Fox (Alfred E.) Pure Milk - Company Horse/Buggy

Businesses - Gage (Daniel) Inc. - Storefront

Businesses - Gagnon (A. J.) & Sons Inc., Dracut

Businesses - Gaumont Bros. Inc. - Storefront

Businesses - General Electric - Aerial View.

Businesses - George of Lowell Photographer
Businesses - Gofkauf's Store Inc.

Businesses - Good Year Service Store - Storefront
Businesses - Grocery Store Interior/Storefront Window
Businesses - Heinz - product piece
Businesses - Hi-Ball Cafe
Businesses - Horne Coal Company

Businesses - Jenney Gasoline Station - Gorham Street @ Butler Avenue

Businesses - Keith (B.F.) Theater

Businesses - Laurier Hotel - Interior rising dance floor

Businesses - Lowell Auto Lamp Co.

Businesses - Lowell Lamb Company - Storefront

Businesses - Lowell Opera House - Sidewalk view of storefronts

Businesses - Magnavox - TV Display

Businesses - Maine Egg Producers - Employees Packaging

Businesses - Manzi Dodge Trucks

Businesses - Market Basket (formerly DeMoulas) Dummer Street Store
See: DeMoulas (Correspondence Box)

Businesses - Meloripe Fruit Co., Boston, Business Truck
Businesses - Mercier Potato Chips

Businesses - Merrimac Esso Service Center (corner Merrimack and Pawtucket
Streets)

Businesses - Merrimack Valley Welders Supply

Businesses - Michaud, (Walter) Contractor

Businesses - Moxie, Mr., Moxie Car, "Moxieland" building

Businesses - Nelson's Candy

Businesses - OK Dexter Shoeing

Businesses - Ostroff & Sousa Co.

Businesses - Peabody (FI.) Store; Brunet's Diner; Parent's Market (Aerial View of
Lakeview Avenue, Centralville, Lowell)

Businesses - Pellon Corp (aerial view)

Businesses - Polly's (Westford)

Businesses - Plymouth, Chrysler, Imperial
Businesses - RCA Victor - Record Player
Businesses - Rodis (Chris) Insurance Company
Businesses - Smith Family, corner Gorham/Moore Street
Businesses - Specialty Shop - interior
Businesses - Speare House Ribbon Cutting



Businesses - Storefront - Magnovox TV display
Businesses - Union National Bank- Open House @ Drum Hill
Businesses - United States Cartridge Co.

Businesses - Wakefield Industries - Record Carrying Case.

Businesses - Westfield River paper Co. - Window Display

Businesses - Willowdale Hotel

Businesses - Wright Dairy (?) - Westford

Cable & Connector

Camera - Canon

Camera Film "New Approach to Resolution"

Canal - Eastern 1928
Canal - Northern (Sketch)

Canal - Pawtucket (2)

Canal Walk

Carpenters Local Union #49
CCA Club - Members
Central Street Bridge 1936
Children-unknown (collage)

Chorus/Musicians - Ayotte, Norman - Chorus Group

Chorus/Musicians - Belida, Steve and Band

Chorus/Musicians - Polish American Band

Chorus/Musicians - Spindle City Singers

Chorus/Musicians - Unidentified

Club C.M.A.C. - Officers 1939

Club Lafayette - 2001 Members

Club w/members (unidentified) award trophies

Construction site near Dracut House of Pizza

Construction/Utility Workers

Couple - Anniversary Party (group photos)

Couple - unidentified, April 1955
Couple - unidentified, Salisbury Beach 1916
Couple - unidentified

BOX 3 DIGNITARIES-FLOOD

FOLDER 1-58


Dignitaries - Unknown
Doll Display

Dracut house of Pizza - Construction site next to

Emblem - Lowell Technological Institute

Emblem - United States of America (framed)

Equipment/Machinery

Family- Beauchesne Family

Family - Bello, Bemvinda w/son Manny



Family _ Gendreau, Rene w/sons Marc & David and Wife

Family - Flardy Family Reunion 1994

Family-Janas, John and Family

Family- Lamy Family

Family - Lamy, Ray and Family

Family- Martin (Roland) Family

Family - Morrissette Family (wife Karen Lamy)

Family - Petren, owners of A&L Cab
Family- Sullivan, Joe and Family (2)

Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified
Family - Unidentified

Family - Unidentified - Grandmother w/(7) children on sofa

Figurines - Golfers

First Communion - Allard, Nancy

First Communion - Baril, Matthew

First Communion - Bechard, Robert

First Communion - Bell or Bragon (?), Girl 1975

First Communion - Bettencourt Children

First Communion - Boys (unidentified)

First Communion - Boy/Girl (unidentified - ordered by Comtois)

First Communion - Clarker,Tonya
First Communion - Classes (unidentified)

First Communion - Class of Girls (unidentified)

First Communion - Cocca, Tina
First Communion - Coyle, Timothy
First Communion - Curran, Robert 1973
First Communion - DaSilva, Fernanda
First Communion - Faios, Richard
First Communion - Fierly, Heidi

First Communion - Girl (ordered by Patricia Walsh) 1973
First Communion - Girls (unidentified)

First Communion - Goupil, Denise

First Communion - Group boys - St. Jean D'Arc School (inch Roux; Millette;

Beaudoin; Phaneuf
First Communion - Hebert, Eric
First Communion - Knapp, Russell & Brian
First Communion - Krawczyk, Jaine (Beaudry Street)

First Communion - LeClair, Norman & Renee
First Communion - Lopez, Michelle





First Communion - Mello, Mrs. (Boy unknown)

First Communion - Morin, Jennifer

First Communion - St. Joseph's School - coed ca.1960

First Communion - Shugrue, Victoria

First Communion -Thomas, Justin

First Communion - Tremblay, Jennifer 7/20/1989

Fish

Flood


Flood 1936
Flood 1936


BOX 4 FREEDOM-GROUP-MALES

FOLDER 1-27


Freedom Train
Furniture - Bunk Beds

Gagnon, Rev. Flerve, OMI - Pope's Blessing 1980
Geolopsos, Rev. Phillip w/group

George's Photo Service - Photo of Letter promoting business w/negatives
Girls Scouts, Lowell, Ma.

Goulas, Mrs. - Males eating at counter [See: Negative 3.5x5]

Gray Castle Orchestra at Rex Grille & Ballroom

Greek Neighborhood-Lowell, incl. Hi Ball Cafe; Laconia Fruit; Athens Cafe

Greek Transfiguration Church - Georgeou

Greek Transfiguration Church - Papaspiropoulos

Greek Transfiguration Church - Pappas

Greek Transfiguration Church - Svoliandopoulos

Greek Transfiguration Church - Vevas

Group - Church setting

Group - City Flail

Group - Dancing

Group - DeMoulas, George w/others to incl. George Poirier
Group - Females to incl. nun
Group - Females (unidentified)

Group - Guests at wedding to incl. Rene "Killer" Geoffroy & wife
Group - Holy Trinity Greek Church Parish Council
Group - Males (unidentified)

Group - Males - Anton, Arthur receives Recognition

Group - Males - Desilets, Bob; Rene Geoffroy; Alfonse Thiboreux

Group - Males: Bill Flartigan; Dubois; Jim Fahey; Dan Daigle; Bob Mullin;

Phil Sullivan; John Floughey; Tom Sullivan; John Avila
Group - Males - Police officers
Group - Males - Priests
Group - Males - Uneeda Camp



Group - Males - Work Crew


BOX 5


GROUP MALE/LOOM

Group - Males/Females

Group - Males/Females - "Boston to Seattle and Return" 1909
Group - Males/Females - (incl) Bourgeois, Flomer
Group - Males/Females - CMAC Club (?)

Group - Males/Females - (incl) Dufresne, Sonny [Walter's father]

Group - Males/Females - Fans w/Danny Thomas
Group - Males/Females - Greek Community
Group - Males/Females - Gregoire. George Mr./Mrs.

Group - Males/Females - Mr./Mrs. Kennedy, Edward w/Jim & Mike
Group - Males/Females - (incl.) Kennedy, Jackie & Father Spike Morrissette,
Order placed by: Peter & Gloria Spanos
Group - Males/Females - (incl.) Kennedy, John & Father Spike Morrissette
Group - Males/Females - (incl.) Kennedy, Ted & Father Spike Morrissette
Group - Males/Females - Lowell Technological Institute
Group - Males/Females - Neofotistis, Antonio & Maria - Receiving Citation
Group - Males/Females - (pig roast?)

Group - Males/Females - (Washington DC)

Group - Males/Females - (unidentified)

Group - Middlesex Community Nurses
Group - Nurses (unidentified)

Group - Nurses of Lowell Voke
Group - Performing
Group - Scout Troop
Group - Servicemen
Group - Veterans
Gymnasium

Handyman work w/PVC pipe

Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union - Board of Directors (?)

Kennedy, Jackie - Visit to Franco-American School
Kennedy, John w/George Poirier

Kennedy, John w/Father Spike Morrissette and Campaign Supporters
Kennedy, Ted at Hardy Home and w/George Poirier shaking hands
Kennedy, Ted - Visit to Lowell

Kerouac, Jack & George Poirier & Kerouac as boy w/boys "My Own Play '33"

Kittredge's Lakeview Ballroom

Kiwanis - Group w/ Fr. Spike Morrissette

Koukias, Terry - Anniversary 50th

Lakeview Ballroom/Park

Lakeview Theater 1893 - Entrance w/sign

L'Etoile, Sept. 16, 1886 (pi)



Lincoln Monument-Lincoln Square, Lowell
Lion's Club of Dracut - Charter Members


Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana
Locks & Cana


Photo - Ames Worsted Mill (rear) #2622

Photo - Central Street/Strand Theater #2655

Photo - Concord/Merrimack Rivers #501

Photo - French Street/Merrimack Mills #2650

Photo - Hickey Dale Dam #2291

Photo - Kearney Square

Photo - Lower Locks #2383

Photo-Mass Mills #2539

Photo-Mass Mills #2 #2516

Photo - Old Cottage House on Warren St, beside Bagshaw Mill

Photo - Pepperell Mill #2511

Photo - Store House "C" on Canal Street. #2487

Photo - Suffolk Boom #2416


Loom in operation/Spindles


BOX 6
FOLDER 1


LOWELL-POEM


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Aerial Views
Aerial Views
Aerial Views

Aerial Views - CMAC Club @ Pawtucket & Merrimack Streets

Aerial Views - Downtown, Mills

Aerial Views - University's North Campus

Cemetery

Fires - incl. Third Street and downtown
Fire Department

Fire Department - Firemen and apparatus, trucks

Fire Department - Palmer Street Station

Fire Department - Torrent Engine House-Branch Street.

[unclear] Honor Guard - Group of males in red

Lowell Street Map - Riverside, Moody & surrounding Streets
Technological Institute - Graduation
Technological Institute - Metrology
Views - (unidentified)

Views - Aiken Street at bridge intersection VFW

Views - Central Street

Views - Central & Prescott Streets

Views - Dutton Street

Views - Kearney Square w/crowd of people

Views - Market Street from Central Street

Views - Market Street and Lewis Street ca 1920

Views - Merrimack Street and John Street






Lowell Views - Merrimack Street, parade of soldiers
Lowell Views - Pawtucketville Boulevard

Lowell Views - School Street looking towards Pawtucket St. 1898
Lowell Views - Street unknown.

Lowell Views - Tower's Corner
Machinery-Cotton producing
Machinery - Grinder/Buffer?

Magician

Male - Boy at toy pool table - order placed by Bob Sarasin

Male - Unidentified

Marcotte, Miss - Photographer at work

McGrath, Josephine - Electrical wiring/cable

McMahon, Judy- Family Group

Menus - Chin Lee; Laurier Hotel; The New Laurier

Mercier's Genuine Fried Chips - Business horse/buggy

Middlesex Canal

Mill - Boott Mills (3)

Mill - Lowell Machine Shop

Mill - Merrimack Manufacturing Company

Mill Life - Factory Song

Mill Life - Machinery

Mill Property-To Rent

Movie Stars - Unknown

Musicians

Musicians/Entertainers - Sonny & Cher

Musicians - Orchestra

Noel, Earl w/coworker

North Common Village - Aerial views

Oblate Day-Testimonial Dinner- Program 1957

Paquette, Roger (Couple)

Parade

Parade - St. John's Day Lowell 1905
Pawtucket Bridge - Old/New
Pawtucket Dam - Rain Gage 1945
Pawtucket Dam - Repairs 1915
Pawtucket Falls w/Daniel Gage boats
Pawtucket Gatehouse

Pawtucketville Social Club 75th Anniversary
Pet Beatitudes
Physician's Prayer

Poem - "For A Dear Mother" to Jean from Linda (ordered by Bob Campbell)

BOX 7 POIRIER - PORTRAITS

FOLDER 1-60



Poirier, George - Certificate, Professional Photographers Assoc, of N.E. 1979
Poirier, George - w/friends at bar
Poirier, George J. - Knighthood Degree
Poirier, George - Navy

Poirier, George - w/camera taking aerial views from plane
Poirier, George w/group (3) at party
Portrait-Ali, Mehmed

Portrait - Archambault, Dewey (Mayor of Lowell)

Portrait - Barry, Pete & (?) Ayotte
Portrait - Beaudry, Henry (Mayor of Lowell)

Portrait - Bogochow, Walter
Portrait - Bourgeois, Homer
Portrait - Campbell, James
Portrait - Cardoza, Mike (in costume)

Portrait - Carlos, Lukac 1970

Portrait - Champagne, Bruneaux R. (son of G. E. C.) 17 years old, Lowell, MA.

Portrait - Charette, (Welch), Linda 1973

Portrait - Coccoziello, Dean

Portrait - Coccoziello, Denise

Portrait - Cyr, Louis

Portrait - Dawson, Paula

Portrait - Demoulas, Fran

Portrait - Demoulas, George

Portrait - Doherty, Ellen (boy & girl)

Portrait - Dunn, Joe
Portrait - Farrell, Maureen

Portrait - Finn, Kenneth - Ancestor, male [unidentified]

Portrait - Gagnon, Harvey [Female unknown]

Portrait - Geoffroy, Kit (Couple)

Portrait - Gilday, Daniel

Portrait - Goulakos, Peter

Portrait - Guilbeault (Paul or Roger?)

Portrait - Hildreth, Andonella 1975

Portrait - Janas, John Jacob

Portrait - Kartsanis, Georgia

Portrait - Kennedy, Jackie

Portrait - Kennedy, John

Portrait - Langlois, Pat - couple

Portrait - Lemay, Simeon "Boy Wonder"

Portrait - Lombardi, Ronald
Portrait - Lupien, Ulysses
Portrait - Maria, Donna (Girl Officer)

Portrait - McDonald, Ben 1976



Portrait - Mitchum, Robert (Actor)

Portrait - Monahan, James
Portrait - Morrissette, Father "Spike"

Portrait - Movie Stars: June Allyson; Joan Crawford; Natalie Wood

Portrait - Mullen, Douglas

Portrait - Nixon, Richard [President]

Portrait - O'Neil, Jack

Portrait - Paquette, Linda Gilmartin

Portrait - Petren, (Lucien?)

Portrait - Poirier, George
Portrait - Poirier, Roger
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