Lowell in winters past

I loved Nature as I knew her,—in our stern, blustering, stimulating New England,—and I chanted the praises of Winter, of snow-storms, and of March winds . . . with hearty delight.

- Lucy Larcom

Monument Square from City Hall. February 17, 1914, The Lowell City Engineers Collection

Monument Square from City Hall. February 17, 1914, The Lowell City Engineers Collection

136 Cheever Street from the Lowell City Engineers Collection, February 3, 1931

The buildings on Cheever Street and the street itself no longer exist, as a result of "Urban Renewal" in the mid-1960s. Cheever Street was in the heart of Little Canada, running along the northeast side of the Northern Canal, from Cabot Street to Pawtucket Street.

136 Cheever Street from the Lowell City Engineers Collection, February 3, 1931

From the Lowell Folklife Project Collection - Photographs Taken during Snowstorm

February 12, 1988

From the Lowell Folklife Project Collection - Snowstorm, Lowell Massachusetts, 1988