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| The Whorf Family in Winthrop |
| When an individual exhibits great talent as an adult it is common to look back to when they were young for clues to help explain what put them on a path to success. Where were they born? Where did they grow up? And most importantly, who were their parents? When there are multiple siblings who each exhibit exceptional talent it leads to the conclusion that something very special happened. In the case of Benjamin, John, and Richard Whorf, there are three brothers who each attained national recognition for their talent, remarkably, each in a different field. All three were born in Winthrop, Mass. All three graduated from Winthrop Public High School. All three were fortunate to have parents, Harry and Sadie Whorf, who both exhibited great intellectual curiosity themselves and encouraged it in their children. |
| The Whorf family did not stay in Winthrop long, but it is Winthrop that is the original home of an exceptional family. Both parents of the three brothers, Harry Church Whorf (1874-1934) and Sarah Edna Lee (1871-1962), were children when they moved to Winthrop. Harry’s parents, Isaiah Atkins Whorf (1848-1901) and Thankful (known as Thannie) Ann (Baker) Whorf (1844-1922), were married in Wellfleet in 1870. Generations of Whorfs and Bakers dating back to the mid-1600’s had lived along the Atlantic coast in towns stretching from Cape Cod, Mass. to Falmouth, Maine. Many were fishermen, seaman, sea captains, and ship builders. Isaiah had gone on several fishing voyages but instead apprenticed himself to learn the tailoring trade. Their first child, Frances Ann Whorf (1872-1872), died at age four months. Shortly after Harry’s birth the couple moved to the Boston area. Records1 show in 1875 Isaiah living and working in Chelsea, Mass. In Boston isaiah found work in the “ready-made” clothing business, a rapidly growing segment that was replacing tailor-made clothing.2 Directories of the era3 list Isaiah’s occupation alternately as tailor, pattern maker, cutter, and foreman. |
| Records are sparse, but Harry’s father Isaiah must have been very successful in the clothing businss. Both Isaiah and Thannie are shown as owning a house in Winthrop in 1895,4 and they reportedly built a third house for Harry when he got married.5 Isaiah was one of the original trustees of the newly built Frost Public Library, and one of the original members of the Winthrop Yacht Club. Both Isaiah and Thannie were active in the Methodist church. |
| Information on Sadie’s parents is even more limited, also fragmentary, and sometimes contradictory. James Lee (1817-1900), Sadie’s father, married Nancy Lane Stewart (1831-1914) in 1848. James was born in Pittston, Maine and Nancy in Charleston, Maine. There are sources that say that James and Nancy were a family of four, others say they had at least five children.6 It is known that in October of 1871 they had a daughter, Sarah Edna Lee, born in Millford, Maine, and sometime about 1885 they moved to Winthrop, Mass. Records show James was a taxpayer in Winthrop in 1885, but not the year before.7 The 1885 list of taxpayers in Winthrop also includes someone named Harry Lee. That name appears in a caption in William H. Clark’s book, The History of Winthrop, Mass. - 1630-1952,8 and is identified as, “brother to Mrs. Sarah (Lee) Whorf.” The picture is dated “about 1880.” The date could be wrong, or maybe Harry Lee had earlier moved to the area. Additional information suggests Sadie had two older sisters. Obituaries and death certificates for Nellie G. (Lee) Gately, and LuLu Emma (Lee) (Johnson) Newhall, show that they were both the children of James and Nancy, and both were in Winthrop at the time of their deaths.9 Why James and Nancy Lee decided to move to Winthrop is not known. James would have been in his late 60’s in the mid-1880’s, and given that his occupation was a lumberman, maybe he just wanted to retire to a place where family members were already living. Sadie would have been about 12 years old when they moved to Winthrop. |
| A remarkable photograph, taken 11 years before they were married shows Harry and Sadie both as students at the Pauline Street School in Winthrop, circa 1885. Coincidently, the photograph is one of over 400 in what is known as the Whorf Collection at the Winthrop Public Library and Museum. Started by Isaiah, and expanded by Harry, the collection contains photographs dating from circa 1868, up to the early 1900s. The early photographs show Winthrop as a rural farming village. Later one’s document the town just as it was beginning to grow and prosper. The arrival of the railroads made Winthrop an easy-to-get-to destination for the residents of Boston to escape the city and be by the ocean, and then later, a good place to live and commute to the city. Like most of the photographs in the collection, the identity of who took the photograph of the grammar school class is not known. Harry had an early interest in photography. Clark in his book on Winthrop recounts when, in 1888, during the building of a new railroad station, a Native American burial site was discovered. Harry, still a high school student, took the photographs that later appeared in a Harvard Peabody Museum paper10, though he wasn’t credited. |
| Harry and Sadie got married in the spring of 1896. Their first child, Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf (1897-1941), was born the following spring, then a daughter, Julia Stewart Whorf (1899-1904), then another son, John Calderwood Whorf (1903-1959). Tragically, in 1904, their five-year old daughter died of pneumonia.11 A third son, Richard Baker Whorf (1906-1966) was born two years later. |
| Julia’s death certificate in 1904 shows the family living at 36 Somerset St. down the street from Harry’s parents. An 1886 Winthrop Atlas shows a single house owned by Thannie on Somerset St. where it meets Pleasant St. The 1896 map shows three houses on the property. In 1900 Thannie sold the house on the corner lot and with Isaiah moved back to Cape Cod buying a house in Provincetown, Mass. Unfortunately, Isaiah died the following year and Thannie moved back to Winthrop. The 1906 Winthrop Atlas shows two houses on Somerset Ave., 94 and 98, owned by Thannie. In the 1914 Atlas, it’s just the 94 Somerset Ave. owned by S.E. Whorf. It’s there that Harry and Sadie would raise their three sons and themselves stay in for the rest of their lives. |
| Much has been written about the careers and accomplishments of the three Whorf boys. Much less about their time in Winthrop. Some insights into how they were raised by Harry and Sadie are available. In the definitive book on their youngest son, John Whorf Rediscovered,12 written by his son John Whorf, and grand-daughter Amy Whorf McGuiggan, the authors give this anecdote: |
| “Sadie once told a reporter that John had easels set up all over the house and was even encouraged to paint on the walls, while Richard was forever directing plays in the basement. Ben, far more bookish and contemplative than his brothers, was fascinated from an early age with puzzles and ciphers, anthropology, and linguistics, and approached life in detailed and methodical way. It is safe to say that in their professional lives and in the discipline paid to their craft, the three sons reflected a facet of Harry’s personality, while emotionally they reflected the empathy and fair-mindedness of Sadie.” |
| John B. Carroll, in the introduction to his book, Language, Thought, and Reality,13, on the writings of Benjamin Whorf, Harry and Sadie's eldest son, describes the house in Winthrop as containing a: |
| “...collection of drawings, books, manuscripts, chemicals, photographic equipment, and odds and ends which the father had accumulated, the house provided a stimulating environment for three abnormally curious and inquisitive boys.” |
| Clearly Harry had an important influence on the success of his children, but to have all three sons attain national recognition in different fields requires much more than having lots of stuff in the house. Sadie’s influences should not be minimized. The linguist George L. Trager, in a biography written after the death of his colleague and friend Benjamin Whorf, said that he inherited from his mother, “…a deep sense of wonder at the mystery of the universe.”14 High praise for a woman born just seven years after the end of the Civil War in a mill town 12 miles up the Penobscot River from Bangor, Maine. |
| Michael Whorf, another of John’s sons, in a book he wrote, Bohemia by the Sea,15 about growing up in Provincetown, Mass., provides a valuable insight when he writes: |
| “Grandma Sadie was a wonderful designer and very good at details. She was a competent technical writer and a gifted planner and advisor. Apparently, she was able to assist her husband on many assignments. They made a pretty formidable team.” |
| As a team, Harry and Sadie Whorf had the very special ability to encourage in their sons an intellectual curiosity to pursue interests in whatever field they chose. As one would expect, intellectual curiosity was also a hallmark of Harry and Sadie’s lives. |
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| Plays, Floats, and Pageants |
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| Harry graduated from Winthrop High School in 1891. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but attended for only one year before switching to his father’s line of work, clothing design. His interests led elsewhere. Harry described his own career in a bio he wrote in 1920 for the 1895 MIT class yearbook. Though he hadn’t from graduated from MIT, his son Benjamin had in 1918. At an event for his son he had run into some of his old classmates and they offered him a chance to participate is their alumni events including adding his bio for the yearbook:16 |
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| "Amusements: Amateur theatricals, photography, arts and crafts, ornithology and yachting. Politics: Indpt. Wt.: 160 lbs. Ht.: 5 ft. 8 1/2 in. |
| I left Tech to engage in the profession of Fashion Designing for men’s and women’s clothing but soon changed to Theatrical Designing for costumes, scenery, properties, posters, etc. While thus engaged, I wrote several plays, operetta librettos, sketches and vaudeville acts for the professional stage and created several pageants and electrical street parades. I also found employment as a professional coach for amateur theatrical productions, besides contributing a number of short stories to the magazines. |
| After about eight years of more or less precarious existence in the above lines of work, largely due to the inability to collect pay for my services, I found myself drifting into so-called “Commercial” drawing, and after a brief career as a newspaper artist I engaged in 1901 with the Oxford Print of Boston as a commercial designer and illustrator. I have been in the employ of this firm ever since in the capacity of all-round “ad-artist” and director of the firm’s Art Dept. |
| … Coming down to the time of the war I can only say that I was able to do very little. I served on the Publicity Board of our local (Winthrop) war work committee and as Publicity Director of our local branch of the American Red Cross, an office which I still hold with much interest. I was able to contribute an accepted design for a Victory Loan Poster. I also served as “Speaker” on all the various Loan and War Work drives.". |
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| The theatrical production he mentions that garnered him the greatest praise was a “musical Mother Goose extravaganza” titled Bobby Shaftoe. With music by James W. Calderwood (1862-1947), the show was based on the English folk song and nursery rhyme. Its first presentation was in March of 1898 at a Waltham theater. The Boston Globe praised the production saying, “…The story goes on its way very prettily, not a dull moment during the production. The fun is new and well brought out.”17 On June 12, 1899 the show opened in Boston at the Hollis Street Theater,18 again to praise by the Globe, “nothing has been spared in the staging of this extravaganza nor in the costuming of the 100 or more people who take part in it.”19 Earlier in the week the Globe had promoted the play reproducing a portion of the sheet music of a song from the play, “A Sailor’s Sweetheart Still I Am.”20 |
| Hoping to build on his success, Harry had a script under consideration by a noted actress of the time, Olga Nethersole.21 But it wasn’t to be. The Bobby Shaftoe productions were acted by all-male amateur troupe, in the case of the Boston showing, as a fund raiser for a group of bicyclists known as the League of American Wheelmen. Harry had been interested in cycling since he was a teenager.22 Ms. Nethersole had earlier appeared in comic operas in Boston but had moved on to acting in more serious roles. She performed in the play Sapho in New York in 1900, a controversial story about a woman with a notorious reputation for keeping many lovers.23 Far different from the light, comedic entertainment Whorf and Calderwood would produce. Harry would give his second son the middle name of his collaborator, Calderwood. |
| In his biography for the MIT yearbook Harry states that he went into commercial design when he couldn’t make living working on amateur productions. Because commercial art is not signed it is often impossible to identify who the artist was of a specific design. Only the client is important. In Harry’s case there are two well-known logos that he is given credit for designing, by some. Other credit different designers. The first is the “Old Dutch Cleanser” logo.24 The trademark was registered in 1905, making the timeframe correct for when Harry was doing design work, but several other artists have been given credit for the logo, even the famed Georgia O’Keeffe. She worked as a commercial in Chicago, but started that job in 1908,25 three years after the trademark was registered. |
| The other company logo Harry is credited in designing by some is the Sherwin-William’s “Cover the Earth” trademark with its tipped can pouring paint over the globe. It’s clearly documented in company literature that the original concept was based on a pencil sketch done by George W. Ford in the mid-1890s.26 The company had been using a chameleon as a logo confusing many who wondered why an image of lizard was appropriate for a paint company. Versions of Ford’s initial drawing were used in Sherwin-Williams advertising and brochures as early as 1901, and it wouldn’t be until 1905 that the simpler, more graphic design was trademarked.27 Did Harry take the detailed drawing and simplify the “Cover the Earth” design for advertising purposes? It’s not known. Someone did. |
| If you asked people in Winthrop when Harry was alive what his greatest contributions were to the town, some would likely say it was his work on parade floats. As early as 1901 Harry was using his experience in set and scenery design and applying it to floats in parades, first in Charlestown as part of their annual Bunker Hill Day celebrations.28 Winthrop in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a summer resort location and one of the traditions was for visitors to take part in “coaching parades.” Organizations, hotels, and groups would decorate horse-drawn coaches and then ride them in a parade through the town. Accompanying the coaches would be floats that Harry became involving in designing in 1907.29 But the era of the coaching parades was coming to an end. Winthrop was losing its popularity as resort town with attractions at Revere Beach drawing away the day crowds, and expanding railroad lines allowing people taking longer vacations to travel further. Winthrop was changing too. When Harry took the pictures of a Native American burial in 1888, the town had a population of about 2,000. In 1915 the population had passed 12,000. |
| While the floats were important, it is more likely that Harry's peers would say that his most significant contribution to the town was his part in the massive pageants held at the Fort Bank’s drill field in 1919, 1920, and 1921. The patriotic celebrations were part of the town’s welcome home ceremony for the 1,100 men, almost 10 percent of the population, who had served during World War I. The location, Fort Banks, was where the commanding officer for the U.S. Army’s Coastal Artillery Corps resided.30 Soldiers from the fort, along with those from nearby Fort Heath and other forts protecting Boston harbor, were deployed to Europe during the war. |
| With the war over in 1919, victory won, and the troops coming home, the July 4th celebration that year had a special meaning. In Winthrop the holiday started the evening before where, “’Open House’ was the order throughout the clubs in the town, where dancing, vaudeville, and motion pictures provided amusement for hundreds.”31 The evening ended with a large bonfire in the Playstead, site today of the Middle/High School and Miller Field. The 4th was hot with the temperature reaching 104 degrees. Celebrations included parades, speeches, presentations, and baseball games and races at Ingleside Park. In the evening a crowd of 10,000 made its way to the natural bowl overlooking the Fort Banks drill field for a pageant titled, “America in the World War,” that had been written and would be directed by Harry. The three-hour show they saw featured, “hundreds of vari-colored lights and nearly 50 flood lights…” and “scores of handsome costumes of various hues.” An amateur cast of over 500 local men, women, and children preformed a series of ten tableau vivants, or “living pictures.” Clark in his book on the history of Winthrop describes the pageant as: |
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"... in essence a musical and dramatic presentation presenting the history of the United States in World War I. Part One, 1914 to 1916, was in two episodes; the first was "Peace and Unpreparedness" and the second, "Neutrality". Part Two, 1917, also in two parts, depicted "The Gall to Arms" and "Mobilization of the Country's Resources", Part Three, 1918, displayed "The Nation at Arms". Part Four ran between 1917 and 1919, representing "Victory" and "Welcome Home". Part Five, "Now and Forever", had three parts: "In Memoriam", "Old Glory" and the finale, "Lights Out". |
| The next day’s Boston Globe gave more ink to the parade and its participants than it did the pageant, but did call the later the “crowning event.” And its success led to the decision to repeat the pageant a month later in August. The newspaper didn’t limit coverage this time touting the pageant in a preview the weekend before with a write up that included three pictures, one showing Harry directing a group of young women in front of one of the fort’s mortars. After the event the Boston Globe wrote:32 |
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“Thousands of people from all parts of Boston, and even more distant places, came here last night to witness the historic pageant, “America in the World War,” a review in pantomime and tableau of the essential happenings in this country since war first gripped Europe in 1914…
…The gigantic production, in which more than 500 men, women and children, participated, was staged under the personal direction of Harry C. Whorf, its author… ...
...For three hours the 10 episodes were staged with clock-like precision, every feature bring forth thunderous applause.” |
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| Proceeds from the event were given to the Army Relief Society for distribution among sick and wounded soldiers and their families. |
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| In December of 1919 Harry wrote, produced, and directed another play, this time a war-time drama called, “The Greatest Miracle of All.”33 It was presented over three nights at the Winthrop Theater again with an amateur cast. More than 1,000 people attended each night. Proceeds were given to the local chapter of the Red Cross. |
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| The success in 1919 led to the formation of the Winthrop Pageant Association and the scheduling of another pageant for the following year. Written and directed again by Harry, it was titled, “1920, or Faith in America". The theme based on a line from a speech given by then Governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, “And this is what the country needs most now – ‘Faith.’ Faith in mankind, faith in America, and right here at home, faith in Massachusetts.”34 |
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| Harry significantly upped the complexity of the event and looked to give it a much deeper meaning. Excerpts from a Boston Globe story previewing the event include:35 |
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| “The pageant will consist of three parts; allegorical, historical and prophetic which are divided into seven episodes and about 30 features, each feature set to a separate number appropriate to its sentiment.” The first episode, Allegorical, started with a character representing, “Faith, leading 24 beautiful spirits who guide and protect the human race.” More characters represented, “Columbia, Father Time, The Future, Peace, and Prosperity.” Nature featured, “dancing groups portraying the elements, earth, fire, water, electricity and light.” There “Ballet of the seasons” consisting of “large groups representing Winter Snowflakes, Spring Blossoms, Summer Sunbeams” and “Autumn Leaves.” Frivolity was represented by “a pair of peppery dancers.” There characters for King Booze (deposed), Little Income, Big Expense, High Price Commodities, Jolly Profiteers, Reckless Extravagance, Discord, Strikes, Anarchy,” also a big group of jazz dancers.” And that was just the first part. |
| The Historical part of the pageant started with local Boy Scouts dressed as American Indians. The Pilgrims followed, then a character representing the Spirit of 76 who entered on, “an elaborate sedan chair of the period with a large group of minuet dancers.” Other characters represented, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Abraham Lincoln. “The South Before the War” featured “and old-time Virginia reel.” A plantation scene, that clearly would not be appropriate today, had “slaves of all ages in their frolics and slave auction, slave drivers and auctioneers.” Followed by, “The Boys in Blue” with veterans of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) rallying to the flag. |
| The final episode was the, “’Grand Review, of all the participants, a beautiful Rainbow Ballet, typifying ‘Columbia’s hopes of the future’ and a patriotic finale to the ‘Star Spangled Banner.” |
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| Unlike the 1919 pageant, where almost the cast were all amateurs, the 1920 pageant included active duty military personnel.36 Colonel James F. Howell, commander of the coastal defenses of Boston harbor, had been the Chief Marshal of the parade before the 1919 pageant, and was made an honorary president of the Winthrop Pageant Association. He must have been an officer who like pageantry because he made a special request to the U.S. Government for the use of guns and lights. The U.S. Army and Navy Journal describes the “Call to Arms” segment as Major General Clarence Edwards, Colonel Howell, and other officers, “emerged from the great Triumphal Arch,” leading a procession that, “consisted of 155-mm and 77-mm anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, machine guns, rolling kitchens, and Red Cross ambulances. This realistic procession formed a part of the next scene of action which utilized a smoke screen, thunderous reverberations from 100 signal rockets of the variety used in No Man’s Land.” Afterwards Edwards called the pageant, “The biggest and finest thing that has ever been done by civilians for the American Army.”37 |
| No late summer pageant was produced in 1920, though on September 5th a “grand athletic carnival and frolic” was hosted by the Winthrop Post of the American Legion at Ingleside Park. Colonel Howell was there again on the reviewing stand. A midway was a big success, as was a special drawing with prizes including a new car, five tons of coal, and a barrel of flour. Fireworks followed. 10,000 people reportedly attended. |
| In 1921 the decision was made to stage two pageants back-to-back on July 4th and 5th. Titled “America First,” the Boston Globe again ran a preview article:38 |
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| The pageant consists of a prologue and four parts, with 28 episodes, many of which Include tableaux; and dancing. "Early Times" is the title of the first part. This includes scenes depicting the days of the explorers, the Revolution, colonial days and the birth of the United States flag. The second part is titled ''The Era of National Expansion,'' which features the “Abolition of Dueling,” in which Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are portrayed; the “Welcome to the Immigrants,” the “Discovery of Gold," the “Conflict of the Rebellion," followed by a beautiful tableau, "The Abolition of Slavery." This part is brought to conclusion by a tableau entitled "America First United." |
| Part 2 deals with the "Era of Prosperity" and this Includes many tableaux and dances, but the country's progress shown to be Interrupted by the World War and then comes Uncle Sam's call to arms, followed by a military scene, "Somewhere in France," portraying a night scene on the Western front with a gas attack. The last episode of this part is entitled "America First for Humanity," and it shows the return of Uncle Sam in a march and tableaux. |
| The last part deals with "The Present" and it Is filled with dances and tableaux that will please both young and old. |
| The music will include some the most classical efforts of early days, the soul-searching tunes of war-like times, and the more lively and jazz music of modern times. |
| Harry was author and director again. The portion performed by active military personnel was gone, though Major General Edwards was there as a guest, and the pageant was dedicated to Colonel Howell who had recently been transferred to a different post. Massachusetts Governor Channing Cox attended the performance on the 5th and in a speech thanked Howell for his service. Attendance, while still strong, was slipping, 6,000 viewed the pageant on the 4th and 5,000 on the 5th.39 Instead of the later pageant, an “all-day athletic tournament, carnival and frolic” was held at Ingleside Park. It attracted 12,000 people.40 In May of the next year it was decided to drop the Fort Banks pageant and again stage a “carnival and frolic” at Ingleside Park. Rain forced a postponement, but when the event was held on the 8th, 10,000 attended.41 |
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| "…Probably few community undertakings gave so much pleasure to so many people, not only the audience but the participants as well.”. |
| There would be one more good opportunity for the Winthrop Pageant Association to stage an event. 1927 was the 75th anniversary of the town of Winthrop and Harry was part of a group leading an effort to stage a major celebration.42 But there was little public support, and nothing came of the effort. The biggest event held that year was a banquet and ball at the local Elks Club. |
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| A Fomidable Team |
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| By the mid-1920s all three of Harry and Sadie's sons had graduated from Winthrop High School and moved away from town. Oldest son Benjamin was married and living in Hartford, Conn. working at an insurance company, and studying the Hebrew bible in his free time. Middle son John had traveled through Europe as a teenager studying painting and was living in Brookline, Mass., already having held his first one-man show. Youngest son Richard, after getting leading roles in high school plays, was acting on the stage in Boston getting good reviews, and planning on moving to New York. |
| Without a doubt Harry’s work and interests had a major influence in stimulating the curiosity of his sons. It is also clear that their mother, Sadie, had as important a role setting the three boys on paths that would lead them to success and acclaim in their chosen fields. There are hints of this in their grandson Michael Whorf’s book Bohemia by the Sea when describes the two as a “formidable team.” But this was 100 years ago at a time when women’s suffrage had just happened, and when tradition had it that a women’s own name was gone, replaced by being identified as the wife of her husband, Sadie was Mrs. Harry C. Whorf. Still, Sadie’s interests do start to become evident as early as when her sons are still in High School. |
| Paralleling Harry’s work on comic operas like Billy Shaftoe, Sadie in 1917 is on a committee organizing the “’Fi-Fi of the Toy Shop,’ a musical fantasy” at the Winthrop Theater.43 In 1918 she’s the chairperson of the committee preparing a float for a Red Cross parade in Boston.44 In 1923 she is directing a tableaux, “The Family Album,” at the local Winthrop Methodist Church, with parishioners acting as “living pictures” representing characters from the history of the town.45 |
| One interest both Harry and Sadie shared was giving lectures, and a topic they both would give lectures on was, “Cape Cod as the Artist sees it.”46 Records show Harry giving the lecture several times in 1920 including once at a New England Genealogical Society meeting. In the talk Whorf described how the Cape was a “land of color” as bright as the tropics because of the brilliant light caused by the white sands and the water which almost surrounded the town. The presentation was illustrated with 100 lantern slides Harry had hand-colored showing “picturesque bits of the village, wharves, parks, and vessels” that were some of the favorite models of the artist colony. The slides were projected using a stereopticon. Sometimes confused with a stereoscope, a device which allowed the viewing of two images that would give the affect of being three dimensional, the stereopticon featured two projectors that would be used to dissolve between two images for a type of visual storytelling. |
| Then it’s Sadie’s turn to give the same, “Cape Cod as the Artist sees it” lecture. In 1922 she’s giving it at the Lasell Seminary for Young Women, and in 1925 at the Roger Hall School for Girls in Lowell.47 Through the rest of the mid-1920s she uses the same lantern slides and gives the lecture at a list of women’s and other social clubs including those in, Auburndale, Braintree, Chelsea, Hyde Park, Melrose, Peabody, Somerville, Weymouth, Winchester, and Winthrop. |
| In 1928 Harry used the stereopticon again to give a presentation at an “Old-Timers’ Night” at a Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association gathering in the Deane Winthrop House.48 The new lecture topic was, “Early Days in Winthrop,” illustrated with lantern slides from photographs he had taken years before. When Harry’s parents brought him to Winthrop as a five-year old the town had only about 1,000 inhabitants. When he was taking his photographs of the sites as a teenager it had about 2,000 citizens. Just over 30 years later in 1930 there almost 17,000 people living in Winthrop. The town had changed from an almost rural community to one that was almost completely developed. Eighty years later in 2010 the population of the town would only have increased by not much more than 500 people. Winthrop had “filled-up” by 1930. |
| Harry was active in civic affairs in Winthrop. He was appointed to an advisory council for new a hospital, he was a leader in the local Boy Scouts, and was elected a town meeting member and also a Library Trustee, a position his father had held. Harry’s interest in the theater continued, albeit with amateur casts at the local Winthrop theater. In 1922 he wrote and directed a comedy-drama titled. “Pickled Money” about life on Cape Cod, and then in 1924, “The Mean-Wells,” a tableau about the work of Red Cross volunteers. Both were fund raisers for Red Cross.49 |
| Unfortunately, the “formidable team” would not last. Harry contracted leukemia and died in the fall of 1934. He was 60 years old. Sadie outlived her husband by almost thirty years living to be 90. It is during this period that it becomes clearer how much she too was a major contributor to the creativity and intellectual curiosity that their sons would demonstrate. Beginning when Harry was still alive, and initially working with lantern slides he had produced, Sadie begins giving lectures on topics unique to her. Then after his death through the rest of the 1930s and into the early 1940s the list of topics expands and becomes much more diverse not always using Harry’s slides. |
| In 1930 Sadie has a new lecture titled, “The Romance and Reality of Boston Harbor,” that she gives at a New England Historic Genealogical Society meeting.50 In it she makes a remarkably prescient observation that Boston is “rather peculiar in its failure to properly appreciate and advertise the scenic beauties of its harbor shore and islands.” It wouldn’t be until 40 years later in 1970 that the Massachusetts Legislature would fund the Department of Natural Resources to acquire islands in Boston Harbor, and not until 1996 before the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area was created. The lecture demonstrated her knowledge of topics ranging from glaciers and formation of the islands, to legends of Norsemen exploring the coast, Native American inhabitation, visits by Pilgrims and other early settlers, arrival of the the Puritans, and the first planting of apple and pear trees by John Winthrop on Governor’s Island. |
| Sadie gives the same presentation about the Boston Harbor in 1934 to the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution.51 She was a member of the Deane Winthrop Chapter. Her grandmother Rebecca (Puffer) Lee was the daughter of James Puffer (1734-1814) and Mercy (Dakin) Puffer (1733-1790). He served as a 2nd Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War and was at the Lexington Alarm, it’s first battle. There is another new lecture Sadie gives in 1936, “Under the Blue Dome of Massachusetts Skies,” also presented at the NEHGS, and again featuring colored lantern slides from Harry’s photographic collection.52 |
| Quilts were another topic of interest to Sadie. In 1934 she is in Winchester giving a lecture on, “’Quilts, Old and New,’ the telling of patchwork from its infancy to the present time.”53 In the write up before the event the organizers compliment her on earlier lecture on “Covered Bridges,” though there is little other record of her interest in the topic. The next year she is in Chelsea reading a paper on “Flowers in song and poetry.”54 Much later in 1944 she’s reading a paper on “India” to a club in Winthrop.55 Clearly Sadie had a wide range on interests, and the intellectual curiosity to explore them. By this time she was over 70 years old and there are few records of additional lectures. It is interesting and poignant that one of the last talks she gives at Bay State Historical League meeting at the Deane Winthrop House was on “Old Winthrop,” the subject of so many of her late husband’s photographs.56 |
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| Underscoring her faith, and demonstrating a completely different talent, Sadie had poems of a religious nature published by the Boston Globe in 1933, 1940, and 1941.57 There seems be no other record of her writing poetry. “The Dear Unknown”, in 1933, laments of death of an unknown soldier, “Immutability” in 1940, the devastation of war, and finally in 1941, “God’s Gift,” a simpler lesson on the value of a crust of bread. |
| Harry and Sadie’s three sons grew up in Winthrop at the very beginning of the 20th century. It’s a time of great change and progress, the first flight of the Wright brothers, the first commercial radio transmission, the launch of the Model T, men first reach the South Pole, a statehood for Arizona completes the continental United States. It’s also a time of darkness. The three sons are just children when the world falls into war. It’s clear that the three sons had intellectually curious and creative parents. It’s fortunate for the three that their parents believed it their responsibility to nurture those same traits in their children. |
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Down thro’ long paths, all bordered with white crosses,
Walks one with anxious eyes that scan each graven name;
Looking, and longing to find amidst the mosses,
A loved one’s last retreat, and rest from war’s dark shame. |
Not on this pathway, nor yet any other,
Stands that white symbol, which aching heart would own.
Hark ‘tis a whisper, a murmur, saying. “Mother —
Look nor name of mine — I sleep ‘Unknown’!” |
O, Dear Unknown — who early on life’s pathway
Gave your all so bravely that others might live -
Went into battle with smile as for a tourney
Cheerily, aye, laughing, so greatly did you give! |
Are you “Unknown”? No! On each roll of honor
In every mother’s heart your name is graven deep!
Dear, splendid soldier, slumber in yon corner,
For God, who gave you life, has marked your nameless sleep! |
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Tho’ wars may devastate the earth,
And all that’s living die—
Tho’ terror reign on land and sea,
And beat down from the sky;
Tho’ greed may crcify the meek—
May crush those of renown—
Yet o’er the cruel, bloody path,
The stars will still look down! |
For only the Omnipotent,
Who notes the sparrow’s fall,
Can change the course of planets—
Can shake the world at all!
Tho’s war may dim its splendor—
May seer the earth to brown—
Yet over waste and want and woe,
The stars will still look down? |
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Do not throw your crusts away, my child!
‘Tis the staff of life you hold in your small hand!
Long ago, the Savior — He so meek and mild —
Blessed such bread, in the last supper with his band! ’ |
Think you of the toil, that has produced the wheat!
Think of sun, and rain, and early morning dew!
Think of loving hands, and labor sweet —
When Mother made this kingly loaf for you! |
From where you carelessly have dropped these bits;
Pick them up, and brush off all that smears!
Place them were some hungry bird, that flits,
Near the roadside, may be filled with food that cheers! |
There is, my child, in far off warring lands,
The want of food, for which the children weep!
Look at the crusts you still hold in your hands —
Give thanks, that you the staff of life may keep! |
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| Harry C. Whorf Cup |
| After Harry's death in 1934 the Winthrop High School created an award in his honor. People in the Boston area may recognize the 1945 winner. Frank Avruch (1928-2018) for forty years was a local radio and TV host in Boston, and from 1959 until 1970 was well-known for playing Bozo the Clown. |
1935 – Hope Hedman
1936 – Lorraine E. Graham
1937 – Robert N. Walker
1938 – Marie Blanche Olga Goodfriend
1939 – William Welton
1940 – Russell Cameron West
1941 – Kathleen M. Wainwright
1942 – Frances Zena Prager
1943 – Jane Kathleen Flaherty
1944 – Marie G. Caggiano
1945 – Frank B. Avruch
1946 – Norma Shirley Rosen
1947 –
1948 – Arthur Banda |
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| Harry and Sadie's second child, Julia, died not long after her fifth birthday. The cause was pneumonia according to the death certificate, and she had been sick for 10 days. At the time the family was living at 36 Somerset Ave. |
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| While there is abundant information available about the achievements of each of the Whorf brothers in their chosen fields – Benjamin in fire safety and linguistics, John in watercolor painting, and Richard in acting and directing – the three are seldom mentioned together as brothers. Possibly because there chosen fields appear so dissimilar. What could there be in common between three brothers, one a Yale academic who studied the Hopi language, the second a bohemian painter from Cape Cod, and the third a Broadway actor who won a Tony award for costumes and directed 67 episodes of the TV show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and 37 episodes of My Three Sons? |
| The Winthrop Public Library and Museum has digitized the Winthrop High School yearbook, The Echo, dating back to 1915, with some gaps. Unfortunately not 1914, the year Benjamin Whorf graduated. In the fall of that year he enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology just when it moved across the river from Boston to its spacious new campus on the banks of the Charles River. The 1920 yearbook is in the collection and John Whorf is a member of the graduating class. He had already been studying painting in Boston and on Cape Cod in the summer. Richard Whorf is in the 1924 yearbook and is noted as having the lead role in the senior class play, and also when it was performed that same year at the Copley Theater in Boston. |
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| Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) |
| After graduating from Winthrop High School in 1914, Benjamin enrolled at MIT in the chemical engineering program. He graduated in 1918 and took a job with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company moving to Hartford, Conn. There he met, and in 1920, married Celia Inez Peckham (1901-1997). They had three children, Raymond Ben (b.1922), Robert Peckham (b.1924), and Celia Lee (b.1930). Benjamin's life was cut short by cancer at age 44. |
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| After graduating from Winthrop High School in 1920 John continued studying art and selling his paintings at galleries in Boston, then in New York. In 1925 he married Vivienne Isabelle Wing (1903-1972), a classmate at Winthrop High School. They lived in Brookline, Mass. first renting and then buying a house. They had four children, Carol (b.1926), John (b.1927), Nancy (b.1930), Michael (b.1932). The family moved to Provincetown, Mass. in 1934. He died of heart attack at age 56. |
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John Whorf, Boston Artist.
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| Richard Baker Whorf (1906-1966) |
| Richard was already acting on the stage in Boston before he graduated from the Winthrop High School in 1924. By 1927, age 21, he was performing in plays in New York City. John married Margaret Harriet Smith (1908-1998) in 1929. She also was a high school classmate in Winthrop. Her nickname was “Tinx”, though it was spelled “Tinks” in high school. They had three children, Peter (b.1931), David (b.1934), and Christopher (b.1940). The family moved to California in 1930s. He died of a heart attack at age 59. |
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| Runnin' the Show |
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| Harry's unfinished book about his childhood in Winthrop |
| The Winthrop Public Library & Museum has one of the original copies of a story Harry wrote about his childhood in Winthrop. As explained in a hand-written introduction, thought to have been written by Sidvin F. Tucker (1888-1982), a fellow Library Trustee and local town historian, only a portion of the manuscript was ever typed. The rest was kept by Sadie, and now possibly lost to time. |
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| About 1934 Harry Whorf started to write a story of life in Winthrop in the 1880’s but died before he finished what would have been a rather lengthy story. Mrs. Whorf felt that what he had written should be preserved and because Mr. Whorf wrote closely and such a small hand she copied it in her own clear writing on 179 pages of foolscap. |
| I had arranged for her to have it typed, three copies to be on paper identical with this sheet and three copies on lighter weight paper [see attached], five of the copies of course being carbons. |
| Mr. Whorf’s business as a designer was carried on by his hand for many years in Boston and he had a wide clientele, but recently he was associated with Edward Hare and Company, commercial designers. |
| To date only 79 of the 170 pages of Mrs. Whorf’s manuscript have been done [61 types pages]. On the same basis there are still about 75 types pages to do. At present to manuscript, five types copies are in the hands of Mrs. Whorf. |
| Winthrop has greatly valued the late Mr. Whorf’s ability as a trustee of the Frost Public library for a number of years. He was ever and exponent of the best in thinking and living. His keen perceptions and balanced judgement made his a power in his community, which greatly regrets his passing. |
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1934
A Boy's Life in Winthrop
Fifty Years Ago
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Harry C. Whorf |
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| Harry Whorf Obituary, Winthrop Sun, Sep. 29, 1934 |
| Harry Church Whorf Laid at Rest In Winthrop Cemetery |
| An Artist of Pageant Fame |
| One of Winthrop’s foremost citizens identified with Winthrop’s progress for over fifty years and ever alert to help his community along artistic, educational and social lines, Harry Church Whorf, passed away on Saturday, September 22, at his home, 94 Somerset avenue, after a long illness. |
| Mr. Whorf was born in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, of May 26, 1874, and was in his 61st year. His parents were the late Isaiah and Thannie Baker Whorf, and when Mr. Whorf was five years old his parents came to Winthrop to reside, and his education was secured in the Winthrop schools, and he was a graduate of the former wooden building High School which stood on the site of the present E.B. Newton school, which burned down many years ago. He continued his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| The town grew with Mr. Whorf’s growth and he took a great interest in its development, and thousands will recall his splendid collection of pictures of Winthrop of by-gone days, which he was always so generous in showing by means of lantern slides, the while he kept up and interesting and pungent commentary upon the scenes and characters, thus giving an instructive resume which linked the Winthrop of farms and quiet seaside cottages lived in during the Summer by literary and artists of note from nearby Boston, to the town of over 17,000 all-year-round residents of today. |
| Mr. Whorf’s business as a designer was carried on by his hand for many years in Boston and he had a wide clientele, but recently he was associated with Edward Hare and Company, commercial designers. |
| It was, however, as the author of three splendid pageants, written by Mr. Whorf and staged and directed by him at the Fort Banks bowl, just after the close of the World War, whose proceeds were donated to charity, especially the American Red Cross activities, that Harry Church Whorf will best be remembered by in his own home town, as in them the possibilities of his dramatic genius as well as his skill as a director, were glimpsed, if not entirely given full play. The pageants were called “Victory” in 1919; “Faith in America,” in 1920, and “Progress, America First,” in 1921, on July 4 and 5. They were all tremendous in scope and ideas. |
| Winthrop has greatly valued the late Mr. Whorf’s ability as a trustee of the Frost Public library for a number of years. He was ever and exponent of the best in thinking and living. His keen perceptions and balanced judgement made his a power in his community, which greatly regrets his passing. |
| He was a devoted member of the First Church of Winthrop, M.E., and lived his Christian principles in his home circle, and in business, as well as in his many social relations. Mr. Whorf was united in marriage to Sarah Edna Lee in 1896, in Winthrop, and she is also talented as an artist in temperament, and is a lecturer of more State-wide fame. Their three sons are gifted along special lines, and they, as well as Mrs. Whorf, survive him. |
| Benjamin Whorf, the eldest son, is with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, and resides in Hartford, and his avocation has been the study of ancient languages, with the results he is the only man in America who has found the clue to the ancient Maya language, and he has prepared manuscripts and deciphering its hieroglyphics which Professor Potter, Harvard College professor of anthropology, has sponsored the publication of for the Peabody Museum of Harvard. Also Mr. Whorf is the only man in America who reads the ancient Aztec language. He has spent some time with Indians descended from them in Mexico. |
| John Whorf has been pronounced by competent judges, both here and abroad, where his pictures are hanging in well-known galleries, as a water colorist of the first rank among American painters. His Summers spent with his parents and brothers in the artist colony of Provincetown nurtured his budding genius into its brilliant flowering. He is a resident of Brookline, but is equally at home abroad. |
| Richard Whorf, the youngest son, is an actor of outstanding ability, as well as a stage artist and playwright. On Saturday he carried out the stage tradition, “The play must go on” by appearing in his leading role in, “Coming Spring,” at the Plymouth, in Boston. He resides in Forest Hill, N.Y., and will play in New York City on his return from Winthrop. Mr. Whorf is survived by nine grandchildren. They are Raymond, Robert and Celia Lee Whorf, children of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Whorf, of Hartford, Conn.; Carol, John, Nancy and Michael, children of Mr. and Mrs. John Whorf, of Brookline, and Peter and David Whorf, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Whorf of Forest Hill, N.Y. |
| Funeral at the Whorf House |
| The brief funeral services were conducted by the Rev. C. Oscar Ford, D.D., pastor of First Church of Winthrop, M.E., at 2 p.m., at the Whorf home, 94 Somerset avenue, on Monday, September 24. There was no music, but Dr. Ford gave a glowing eulogy. |
| The was a very large gathering of relatives and long-time friends, a few of them classmates of the late Mr. Whorf, and there was a perfect mound of beauty and fragrance in the great numbers of floral tributes, which seemed to express a silent message of lave and joyalty to the memory of Winthrop’s revered citizen, Harry Church Whorf. |
| Sadie Lee Whorf Obituary, Winthrop Transcript, Jul. 24, 1962 |
| Mrs. Sarah Whorf Dies Here At 90 |
| Mrs. Sarah (Lee) Whorf, a member of one of Winthrop’s best-known families, died Tuesday in a local nursing home at age 90. |
| A former resident of 94 Somerset Ave., Mrs. Whorf was the widow of Harry Whorf, an outstanding artist and pageant producer before his death in 1934. |
| Her only immediate survivor is a famed son in Hollywood Richard Whorf, motion picture producer, actor, writer and stage star, who presently is producing television plays in Hollywood. She also leaves three grandsons and one great-granddaughter who is named for her. |
| Mr. Whorf’s business as a designer was carried on by his hand for many years in Boston and he had a wide clientele, but recently he was associated with Edward Hare and Company, commercial designers. |
| The other sons, the late John Whorf and, the late Benjamin Whorf, also were widely known. John as a celebrated Provincetown artist, and Benjamin as an authority on the ancient Aztec and Mayan civilizations. |
| Mrs. Whorf herself was not content in only take care of her family and a Somerset ave. home crowded with artists’ easels, brushes, paint, stage sets, costumes, manuscripts and books on drama. |
| She served for more than 10 years as a trustee of the Winthrop Public Library, and active in the Winthrop Woman’s Club, the Rangers, Winthrop chapter, D.A.R. and Quest and Question Club. |
| For more than 15 years, she lectured for the Massachusetts Federation of Women’s Clubs. Her most popular illustrated lecture was “Cape Cod as an Artist See It,” – outlining the origin and growth of the Provincetown colony. She also served as an historian for the Winthrop Improvement Historical Association. |
| A native of Milford, Me. Mrs. Whorf had lived in Winthrop for more than 70 years. She had been in a nursing home for the last two years. |
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| Footnotes |
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The Boston Directory 1875, pg. 936, Sampson, Davenport, and Co., 1875 - HathiTrust |
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John Simmons, The Ancestry of John Simmons, Founder of Simmons College, pg.61, Henry S. Rowe, 1933 - HathiTrust |
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The Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop Directory, 1895, 1899, 1902 - HathiTrust, 1908 - Internet Archive |
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List of the Polls and Estates in the Town of Winthrop: May 1st, 1893, Town of Winthrop, 1893 - Google ebook |
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Harry Whorf House, 94 Somerset Ave., Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System - Massachusetts Historical Commission |
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1844 letter from James Lee of Milford, Maine, to Peleg Tolman Jones, Esq. of Lincoln, Maine, Pam Beveridge, 2012 - Heirloom Reunited |
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Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Winthrop, Mass., 1886, 1887 - Google ebook |
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The History of Winthrop Massachusetts 1630-1952, William H. Clark, 1952, Winthrop Public Library, Text wersion |
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Town of Winthrop, Mass., Record of Deaths, Nellie Gertrude Gately, 12 Mar. 1929, Lulu Emma Newhall, 15 Jan. 1948 - Internet Archive |
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Indian Burial Place at Winthrop, pg. 5, Charles C. Willoughby, 1924 - HathiTrust |
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Town of Winthrop, Mass., Record of Deaths, Julie Stewart Whorf, 15 Oct. 1904 - Internet Archive \ Michael Whorf, in his book on growing up in Provincetown, Mass., Bohemia by the Sea, writes that eating tainted seafood was the cause, Bohemia By The Sea, pg. 24, 2016 - Google ebook preview |
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John Whorf Rediscovered, John Whorf, Amy Whorf McGuiggan, 2013 - AFA Publishing | Commonwealth Catalog | WorldCat |
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Language, Thought, and Reality, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edited by John B. Carroll, 1956 - HathiTrust |
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Benjamin L. Whorf - Encyclopedia.com |
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Bohemia by the Sea, Michael, 2016 - Xlibris | Commonwealth Catalog | WorldCat |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Class of 1895, 25th Anniversary, pg. 135,1920 - Internet Archive |
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Familiar Characters Sing. Philedian Association of Wlatham Present "Bobby Shatoe" in a Pleasing Manner, Boston Globe, 16 Mar. 1898 - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Hollis Street Theater, Hollis Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA, Historic American Buildings Survey - Library of Congress |
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"Bobby Shaftoe" Delightful Extravaganza at the Hollis, Boston Globe, 13 Jun. 1899 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Drama & Music, Boston Globe, 11 Jun. 1899 Sun.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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At Provincetown, Boston Globe, 9 Aug. 1891 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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The Sapho Affair - Stage Beauty |
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Winthrop Days, And A Half Century With The Trees - 1855-1905, Mary Priscilla Griffin, 1905 - Winthrop Public Library & Museum |
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Old Dutch History - Old Dutch |
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Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), Old Dutch Cleanser, Serial Number 71012635, Registration Number 0050697 - United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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Chasing the Old Dutch Cleanser Girl, Garland Pollard, 2008 - BrandlandUSA |
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Georgia O'Keeffe Timeline - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons On The Art Of Living, pg. 42, Karen Karbo, 2012 - Google ebook preview |
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Our Trade Mark and Its Designer, pg. 45 , What Fifty Years have wrought, The Shermin Williams. Co., 1916 - Internet Archive |
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Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), Old Dutch Cleanser, Serial Number 71008850, Registration Number 0056422 - United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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Charlestown Carnival Association, Boston Globe, 10 Apr. 1901 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Coaching Parade to be Heald Aug 17, Boston Globe, 7 Jul. 1907 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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The Fifty-fifth Artillery, pg. 12, Frederick M. Cutler, 1920 - Internet Archive |
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Winthrop's Pageant Witnesses by 10,000, Boston Globe, 5 Jun. 1919 Sat. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Pageant of Peace and War, Boston Globe, 3 Aug. 1919 Sun.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop, Boston Globe, 16 Dec. 1919 Tue.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Have Faith in Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, 1914 - Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation |
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Pageant "1920" to be given at Fort Banks July 5, Boston Globe, 22 Jun. 1920 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Big Outdoor Pageant at Fort Banks Will Mark Holiday, Boston Globe, 28 Jun. 1920 Mon. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Pageant for Benefit of Army Relief, Boston Globe, 4 Jul. 1920 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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War Department Sends Guns to Assist Pageant, Boston Globe, 5 Jul. 1920 Mon. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Fort Banks Notes, Army and Navy Register, pg. 56, 1920 - Google ebook |
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"America First" to be Presented, Boston Globe, 2 Jun. 1921 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Pageant "America First" to be Presented at Fort Banks, Boston Globe, 29 Jun. 1921 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Pageant to be Given for Charity Two Evenings at Winthrop, Boston Globe, 3 Jul. 1921 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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“America First" Given at Fort Banks, Boston Globe, 5 Jul. 1921 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Testimonial to Co. J.F. Howell, Boston Globe, 6 Jul. 1921 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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More than 12,000 Persons join in Winthrop Post’s Fourteen-hour Frolic, Boston Globe, 4 Sep. 1920 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Legion Post holds Postponed Fete, Boston Globe, 9 Jul. 1922 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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To Arouse Interest of Winthrop People, Boston Globe, 10 Jan. 1927 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop, Boston Globe, 9 Apr. 1917 Mon.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Plans for Red Cross Parade Saturday, Boston Globe, 15 May 1918 Mon.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Plans for Red Cross Parade Saturday, Boston Globe, 15 May 1918 Mon.. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop, Boston Globe, 6 Feb. 1923 Mon. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Lasell Leaves, pg. 15, 1922- Internet Archive |
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Lasell Seminary Reopens, Boston Globe, 26 Apr. 1922 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Auburndale, Boston Globe, 25 Feb. 1925 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Melrose, Boston Globe, 24 Apr. 1925 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Splinters, Rogers Hall School for Girls, pg. 34,, 1925 - Internet Archive |
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Hyde Park, Boston Globe, 3 Feb. 1926 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Weymouth, Boston Globe, 5 Apr. 1927 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winchester, Boston Globe, 11 Jan. 1930 Sat. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Old-Timers’ Night Held in Winthrop, Boston Globe, 7 Feb. 1928 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop, Boston Globe, 9 Apr. 1924 Wed. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Mrs. Whorf Tells About Boston Harbor Islands, Boston Globe, 8 May 1930 Thu. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Daughters American Revolution Magazine, pg. 361 (PDF), 1934 - Daughters American Revolution |
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Historic Genealogical Society Hears Lecture, Boston Globe, 8 Oct. 1936 Thu. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Quilt Day, Winchester Star, pg. 6, 2 Mar. 1934 Fri. - Internet Archive |
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Chelsea, Boston Globe, 3 Dec. 1935 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Winthrop Quest and Question, Boston Globe, 2 Apr. 1944 Sun. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Quilt Day, Winchester Star, pg. 2. 25 Jul. 1947 Fri. - Internet Archive |
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The Dear Unknown, Boston Globe, 30 May 1933 Tue. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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Immutability, Boston Globe, 1 Apr. 1940 Mon. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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God’s Gift, Boston Globe, 5 Apr. 1941 Sat. - Boston Globe (Subscription) |
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