Privately printed souvenir postcards became very popular after the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago distributed them with photos of the buildings. By 1908 more than 600 million postcards were being mailed in the United States annually. Many of the colorized postcards of Ipswich were created from photos taken by George Dexter, Edward Darling and Arthur Wesley Dow in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
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- Choate Bridge
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- High Street
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- Steep Hill Beach
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- Asa Lord’s Store
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- Ring Bolt Rock
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- Ipswich Bluffs
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- Brown’s Stocking factory
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- Little Neck store
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- Visit Ipswich
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- The Carlotta
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- The Carlotta
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- North Green at Market Square
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- North Main St.
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- Market Square
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- Caldwell Building
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- Choate Bridge
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- Choate Bridge
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- George Dexter hoax photo
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- Clam bake at Little Neck
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- Manning School
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- Little Neck
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- Lower falls
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- Ipswich Depot
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- Ipswich Depot
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- Dow’s studio
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- The Dunes
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- Green St. Bridge
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- Ascension Church
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- Ascension Church
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- Evergreen Village
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- Burke Heel Factory
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- Ipswich Fire Department
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- Little Neck
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- View from Green St.
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- Gould’s Bridge
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- Grape Island cottages
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- Grape Island
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- Great Neck
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- Ipswich River at Green St.
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- Howard house at Green St. bridge
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- Wharf
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- Hayes hotel, Depot Sq.
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- Ipswich High School
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- South Main St.
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- Cable Hospital
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- Ipswich Bluffs hotel
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- Ipswich Mills
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- Ipswich beach
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- Ipswich lighthouse
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- Ipswich River
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- The Jail
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- South Green
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- Labor in Vain Rd.
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- The Wharf
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- Public Library
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- Plum Island Life Saving Station,
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- Ipswich Lighthouse
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- Little Neck
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- Little Neck
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- View from Little Neck
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- Little Neck Hotel
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- “Little Venice”
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- Ipswich Depot
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- Lower River
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- Ipswich lighthouse
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- Little Neck
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- Crane Castle
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- Marguery Restaurant
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- Market St.
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- Market St.
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- Market Square
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- Market Street
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- Market St.
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- Market St.
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- Damon Building, Market St.
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- Salt Marsh
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- Salt marsh hay
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- Memorial Building, Central St.
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- View from the Ipswich Female Seminary
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- Water St.
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- River and Neck
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- Mill workers
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- North Ridge
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- View from North Green
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- North Main St.
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- North Main St.
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- Mill Rd. bridge
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- View from Green St. bridge
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- Old Cate house, High St.
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- Whipple House
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- parade
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- Payne School
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- Polish church
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- RR bridge over Ipswich River
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- Steep Hill beach
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- The Rooster, First Church
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- Ross Tavern, S. Main
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- Ipswich Depot
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- Proctor Estate
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- Dunes
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- County St. sawmill
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- N. Main St.
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- South Green
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- South Green
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- Searles Mansion
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- Cape Ann Sea Serpent
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- Shipwreck at Steep Hill Beach
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- Civil War monument
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- Civil War monument
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- South Main St.
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- South Church
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- South Church
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- Trolley on S. Main
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- South Green
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- Market Square
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- St. Joseph’s Church
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- St. Joseph’s Rectory
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- Summer St. and river
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- Summer St. and river
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- Water St.
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- Sunny Side cabins
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- Little Neck Pier
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- Little Neck
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- Little Neck
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- Little Neck
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- Old Town hall
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- Old Town Hall
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- Central St.
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- The 1907 Tyler Block, the last and largest building to be constructed after the great Central Street fire of 1894
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- Dow’s view
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- Heard house
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- The wharf
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- Little Neck Wharf
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- Wharf, 1935
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- Whipple House
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- Whittier Motel
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- Willows, Ipswich Bluff
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- Winthrop School
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- Winthrop School
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- Whipple House
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- Whipple House
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- Hart House
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- South Main St.
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- Ipswich Depot
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- 1929
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- Agawam House
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- Agawam House, North Green
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- Ipswich lighhouse
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- Choate Bridge
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- Lace Factory
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- Wade house
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- Ipswich Depot
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- Public library
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- The Old Manse
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- Old Town Hall
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- Market St. 1950
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- Hart House
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- Ross Tavern
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- Choate Bridge
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- Mill Rd. Bridge
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- Evergreen Village
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- Depot
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- St. Joseph’s Church
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- Depot
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- Lower Falls
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- S. Main
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- The Pavilion
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- South Green
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- South Green
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- Bottom of Summer St.
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- The River
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- Depot
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- Inside the Little Neck Store
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- Lords Square fire house
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- Evergreen Cottages
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- Dow’s View
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- County St. sawmill
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- Depot
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- Ipswich Bluffs hotel
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- Ipswich tea house
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- Little Neck 1800’s
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- Ipswich Museum
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- Winthrop School
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- River
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- Depot
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- Depot
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- Manning School
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- South Main
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- early trolley on South Main Street
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- On the River
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- View from Little Neck
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- Little Neck Store
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- North Ridge
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- Lighthouse
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- View from the Square
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- Payne Schools
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- Market St.
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- Steep Hill
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- Lighthouse
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- Ship in Ipswich River
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- Shipwreck
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- Green St. Bridge
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- Depot
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- Meeting House Green
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- Wharf 1935
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- Crane Castle
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- Agawam Diner
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- Little Venice
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- Winthrop School
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- Market Square had a trolley in 1910, but no traffic jambs.
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- Lighthouse and dunes
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- North Church
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- River at Wharf
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- Hay stacks in marsh
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- Tall ship in river
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- Carlotta
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- View from town hill
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- Depot
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- Dow’s Studio
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- Ipswich River mouth
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- Whipple House
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- Lord’s Store
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- Carlotta
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- Grape Island
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- Mill
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- The Mills
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- Ipswich River from Green St. bridge
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- The Wharf
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Historic Ipswich 
These were great to see. Thanks for posting them.
Thanks Bob!
Gordon: You are doing an amazing job collecting and disseminating Ipswich’s history. Thank you. Bob