Perhaps the best-known early Ipswich Photographer was George Dexter (1862-1927). His photographs along with those of Edward Lee Darling (1874-1962) and Arthur Wesley Dow provide a visual history of the town of Ipswich.
Category: Photos
Photos of the dunes late on a winter afternoon
Tricentennial & 17th Century Day Celebrations
Along the Ipswich River
Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich
Portraits from Ipswich a century ago
The 1934 parade celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Ipswich
A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
Arthur Wesley Dow cyanotype (circa 1900) of the earlier footbridge at the dam. Until 350 years ago, the Ipswich River ran unencumbered from its origin 35 miles upstream, carving its way through a 148-square-mile watershed. Herring, shad, salmon and alewife swam upstream to spawn. Thomas Franklin Waters noted that, "Great shoals of alewives came up… Continue reading A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam