The Postcards of Charles Cleaves: Images of Rockport from 1907-1937
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From 1907 to 1937, photographer Charles Cleaves, through his company the Rockport Photo Bureau, published hundreds of postcards of Rockport, Mass. The pictures capture a remarkable record of Rockport a century ago. This presentation introduces Cleaves and provides a selection of his postcards, ranging from simple street scenes to majestic vistas. Originally presented to the Sandy Bay Historical Society on July 11, 2017.
The Postcards of Charles Cleaves: Images of Rockport from 1907-1937
- 1. POSTCARDS OF CHARLES CLEAVES Remembering the Rockport Photo Bureau ______________ Robert Ambrogi VintageRockport.com
- 2. Born 1877
- 3. Emma (Eames) Cleaves (1850-1930) Charles H. Cleaves (1847-1905) Ezra Eames (1801-1874) & Miriam Colburn (1808-1879) Charles H. Cleaves Jr. (1877-1937) m Clara L. Cleaves (died 1972) Dr. Ezra Eames Cleaves (1874-1951) m MargaretTarr Emma Francis Cleaves (1879-1961) m Zenas Brown Conley Virginia Cleaves (1912- 1982) m Maynard Little Williard Cleaves (1804-1861) & Rhoda Pitter (1807-1888) Charlotte Eames Conley (b 1917) m Alfred Denoyer Ezra Eames Cleaves Jr. (1914- 2002) m Mary Somers (1916-2003) Miriam Brown Conley (b 1918) m Albert M. SeppalaElizabeth Cleaves (b 1936) m David Scatterday Merry Seppala Charles H. Cleaves James A. Cleaves Stephen Scatterday and siblings (Dave, Doug, ??
- 4. Ezra Eames – Bullfinch House
- 5. Lived atop Pasture Road
- 6. 1885 Charles, age 8 Ezra, age 10 Emma, age 6
- 7. 19XX Charles Sr. started as a stone cutter, owned a bike shop, was an officer of both the Rockport Granite Company and the Rockport Street Railway, and served as a selectman
- 8. 19XX
- 9. 19XX Harvard, 1899, Harvard Law School, 1902 Law Offices in Boston and Rockport
- 13. ROCKPORT PHOTO BUREAU • Started photography age 16. • Started Rockport Photo Bureau 1907. • Died 1937 of a heart attack at age 60. • Virginia continued to run it into the 1940s. • Virginia moved to Westerly, R.I. by 1948. • Virginia gave postcard business to Bud Curtis (c. 1975). • Bud sold his postcard business in 1983. • Virginia donated the glass-plate negatives to the SBHS 1982.
- 15. 1906 1906
- 16. HARBOR AND BEARSKIN NECK
- 17. 1925
- 18. 1930
- 19. 1920
- 20. 1918
- 21. 1920
- 22. 1934
- 23. 1930
- 24. 1920
- 25. 1920
- 26. 1920
- 27. 1930
- 28. 1935
- 29. 1932
- 30. 1945 1931
- 31. AROUND TOWN
- 32. 1912
- 33. 1925
- 34. 1930 1920
- 35. 1915-1920
- 36. 1930
- 37. 1920
- 38. 1932
- 39. FRONT AND BACK BEACH
- 40. 1915
- 41. 1931
- 42. 1935
- 43. 1930
- 44. 1915
- 45. 1934
- 46. 1932
- 47. 1930
- 49. 1910
- 50. 1920
- 51. 1910
- 52. 1910
- 53. PIGEON COVE
- 54. 1930
- 55. 1915
- 56. 1912
- 57. 1912
- 58. 1915
- 59. 1926
- 60. BREAKWATER
- 61. 1912
- 62. 1912
- 63. WARSHIPS
- 64. 1910
- 65. 1910
- 66. 1934
- 67. QUARRIES
- 68. 1910
- 69. SOUTH END
- 70. 1936
- 71. 1925
- 72. 1915
- 73. 1925
- 74. 1912
- 75. 1928
- 76. 1915
- 77. 1920
- 78. MISCELLANEOUS
- 79. 1915
- 80. 1930
- 81. LIGHTHOUSES
- 82. 1922 1920
- 83. 1925
- 84. HOUSES
- 85. 1911
- 86. 1912
- 87. 1912
- 88. 1910
- 89. 1928
- 90. 1932
- 91. 1920
- 92. 1918
- 93. DOGTOWN & HALIBUT POINT
- 94. 1930
- 95. 1932
- 96. 1938
- 98. 1945
- 99. 1942