 | Please visit the Gift and Book Shop at the Needham Historical Society for a selection of books on Needham History, gifts and pansy-related items.
1147 Central Avenue, Needham, MA.
Open Tuesday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm,
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| Our Commemorative Plate and Ornament
Plate - $37.50 Ornament - $17.50
Buy BOTH Together and Save! Both for $50 |
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| DVD - NEEDHAM in the 1900s
Produced and Narrated by Marc Mandel, NCTDC, Commentary by Gloria Polizzotti Greis, NHS.
$15
"Needham in the 1900s" looks at changing life in Needham at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Using historic photos from the Needham Historical Society’s collections, this film looks at Needham’s transformation from farming village to modern town. A joint video production of the Needham Historical Society and The Needham Channel (NCTDC). (Run time, c. 20 minutes) |
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| Images of America: Needham
Carol Johnson Boulris, Editor; with Henry F. Hicks, Pauline M. Attridge, and Elizabeth L. Rich (1997).
Still only $15!
Needham's entry in the popular Arcadia Press Images of America series. Over 250 historic photos of the notable citizens, landmarks and events that shaped our town. |
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| The Baker Estate, or Ridge Hill Farms
by Leslie G. Crumbaker (Revised edition, 1999)
$10.
In the 1860s, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in western Needham. On this land he proceded to build the famous Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America's first amusement park, Ridge Hill Farms embodied Baker's extraordinary passion for social and economic reform, experimental agriculture, bad puns and practical jokes. Illustrated with historic photos of the Estate in its heyday. |
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| Reproduction 1907 PC of Town Hall
$1.
The Town Hall, was built in 1902 and rapidly became the subject of photo postcards -- a relatively new style of communication in those days. The original version of this very early postcard was printed as a color lithograph from a black-and-white photo. It dates to about 1907. |
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| Panoramic Maps: Needham Center and Highlandville (Needham Heights), 1887.
$8 each.
Panoramic or "Bird's-eye" maps such as this one were quite popular, and were produced for many of the local towns in the 1870s and 80s. Needham's two maps, one showing the Center and the other showing Highlandville, depict all of the streets, landmarks and significant dwellings of the period. Approximately 26" x 22". |
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