Collection Overview
Title: Bradlee and Herrick Family Albums
Dates: c. 1900-1960
Creator: Bradlee Family
Repository: Drew Archival Library
Call Number: DAL.MSS.124
Accession Number: DAL.2019.026
Location: Fogg Archives Room
Quantity: 1 box
Language: English

Administrative Information
Access Restriction: Collection is open to researchers
Acquisition Information: Purchase
Preferred Citation: DAL.MSS.124, Bradlee and Herrick Family Albums, Duxbury Rural & Historical Society
Finding Aid Prepared by Carolyn Ravenscroft

Scope and Content:
Four photograph albums of the Bradlee and Herrick families of Duxbury, MA

Album #1, labeled “Bradlee,” c. 1900. Twenty pages of approximately 129 photographs. Also a loose mat with six images of Waldo Herrick. Most of the images in the album are of Abby Standish (Herrick) Bradlee and her friends and family.

Album #2, labeled “Bradlee,” c. 1914-1930. Twenty pages of approximately 160 images. Most are of Abby Standish (Herrick) Bradlee’s children, Elizabeth “Betty” (b. 1914), and Virginia “Jean” (b. 1919). Also of their first cousins, Thomas Waldo, Wilfred, and Elinor Herrick.

Album #3, labeled “Herrick,” c. 1900-1945. Twenty pages of approximately forty images and 12 loose photographs. The photos are predominately of Thomas Waldo Herrick (1889-1960), his wife, Eloise (Glover) Herrick, and their children, Thomas Waldo, Wilfred, and Elinor. There are seven photographs of Thomas Wald Herrick taken during WWII on the Aleutian Islands. Also included is the obituary of Thomas Waldo Herrick from the Duxbury Clipper, Sept. 15, 1960

Album #4, Blue leather cover, c. 1930-1950, labeled “This book belongs to Virginia Bradlee, Box 283, Washington Street, Duxbury, Mass. The album includes many school photographs of Virginia Bradlee’s fellow Duxbury classmates, family, and friends.

Biographical Sketch:
Thomas Waldo Herrick (1858-1938) was born in Duxburyh to Henry Wadsworth and Abbie Winsor. At a young age, he was “adopted” by his widowed aunt, Emily (Wadsworth) Herrick, to be her heir. He changed his name to Herrick in 1866, although he continued to live with his parents. In 1884, he married Lizzie B. Hall (b. 1858) and moved to Braintree, MA, and then to the Herrick house in Brighton before returning to live year-round in Duxbury. The Herricks had two children who survived to adulthood: Abbie Standish Herrick and Thomas Waldo Herrick.

Abby Standish (Herrick) Bradlee (b. 1887) was the daughter of Thomas Waldo Herrick and Lizzie Hall. Her parents were both born and raised in Duxbury. She was born in Braintree, MA. The Herrick family had a summer home on Josselyn Ave. before moving to Washington Street year-round. In 1913 she married Arthur West Bradlee (1888-1918). The Bradlees lived in the Herrick household; Arthur worked as an accountant before his death in 1918. The Bradlees had two children: Elizabeth “Betty” Bradlee (b. 1914), and Virginia “Jean” Bradlee, born six months after the death of her father. After she became widowed, Abby worked as a telephone operator.

Thomas Waldo Herrick (1889-1960), also known as T. Waldo, was the son of Thomas Waldo Herrick and Lizzie Hall. He was born in Braintree before moving to the Herrick house in Brighton, MA. He and his parents and sister eventually moved to Duxbury year-round. In 1914 he married Eloise Bradford Glover (1894-1967). The Herricks lived on Tremont Street, where T. Waldo Herrick opened a garage and Ford dealership. They had three children: Wilfred G., Thomas Waldo, and Elinor (1919-2007).

Virginia Arthur “Jean” Bradlee (1919-1996) was the daughter of Abbie Standish Herrick and Arthur West Bradlee. She was born six months after the death of her father. She was raised on Washington Street in Duxbury and attended Duxbury High School, along with her sister, Betty, and cousins T. Waldo, Wlfred, and Elinor. She married first Alton Whiting and then Nicholas Stasinos.