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Onlookers do not seem too concerned about their safety as they get up close to view this devastating train wreck. According to a newspaper report in the May 7, 1936, Burlington Free Press, a brakeman was killed by escaping steam and the engineer was…

Northfield has made it to the 21st century, but so far The Common area shows no sign of being as innovative as this futuristic postcard predicts! No blimps have been launched proclaiming "New York in one hour," and there has yet to be built a subway…

The Graded School, also popularly known as the Gray Building, on the rightwas built in 1876, after a fire destroyed the previous Northfield Academy building. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and continued as an…

President Calvin Coolidge stands on the site of what would become the National Press Building, which served as the headquarters of the National Press Club until being sold in 2011 to a development company, April 8, 1926.

President Calvin Coolidge receives Arthur Sears Henning, a Washington correspondent and political analyst for the Chicago Daily Tribune who would later become infamous for the incorrect 'Dewey Defeats Truman' headline following the 1948 presidential…

President Calvin Coolidge stands on the White House lawn with a group of editors responsible for business newspapers.

President Calvin Coolidge is presented with a rug from Near East Relief by Dr. John H. Finley, December 4, 1925.

Governor Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge sit behind the T. V. Shorts Band of Springfield, Massachusetts. Col. John Coolidge, the governor's father, sits in front of them, and Calvin Coolidge, Jr., the governor's son, sits in the front row holding…

First Lady Grace Coolidge is photographed at the White House with members of the Black Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1925.

President Calvin Coolidge is photographed at the White House with members of the Amherst Glee Club.

President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge, and their dogs Prudence Prim and Rob Roy, pose for a photograph with members of the Wisconsin Glee Club, March 8, 1926.

First Lady Grace Coolidge receives a pin from the Instructing Visiting Nurses Society, October 30, 1924.