Photographs

Digital Commonwealth

Head toDigital Commonwealth logo Digital Commonwealth—a statewide consortium that provides online access to cultural heritage materials—to explore all of the photos from Watertown’s history that the library has digitized: 1,500 and counting! Browse using the themed collections, or filter photographs by date using the slider on the left side of this listing.

For information on using Watertown Free Public Library photographs from Digital Commonwealth, please see this form.

Spotlight

Woodman's DarkroomOf special interest are photographs taken by Walter C. Woodman (1903-1979), a consulting mechanical engineer who lived in Watertown. He was very interested in the iron industry of New England and was instrumental in working with AISI to restore the Saugus Iron Works and having it designated a national historic mechanical engineering landmark in 1975. He was also an avid photographer with an eye for natural spaces.

Other Watertown Photographs

Project SAVE is a photographic archive of the global Armenian experience, based in Watertown. 

The Library of Congress has digital collections relating to Watertown, including photographs of Watertown Arsenal and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Armenian School. 

A Sampling of Digital Commonwealth Images