The Framingham Room is the corner of the Reference Collection devoted to local history. We have two important new collections housed there.
Through the efforts of a volunteer who was formerly the archivist at Wellesly College our collection of Wallace Nutting manuscripts, archives and memorabilia has been organized, boxed and indexed. Wallace Nutting was a Renaissance man...minister, author, painter, furniture designer. He colorized illustrations that remain quite popular to this day. Nutting and his wife lived in Framingham from 1912 until his death in 1941.
The library also owns an eclectic collection of old photographs. Some are reproductions, others original. Some of the pictures date back to the nineteenth century. They cover many aspects of local life and history. The photographs are indexed and available for viewing whenever the library is open.
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