Tag: Helen Osborne Storrow

Off to buy a few more middy blouses and then I’m off on holiday with the Saturday Evening Girls Club. The Saturday Evening Girls club (1899-1969) was a Progressive Era reading group for young immigrant women in Boston’s North End. From the archives of the University of Massachusetts Boston (previously Boston State College).

At Hull Street: From left to right: unidentified, Fanny Levine, Lili Shapiro, Celia Goodman, and unidentified. North End, Boston, Massachusetts USA. ca. 1899-1917. Photograph. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license.https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/263/rec/4
Berrying: Group of Saturday Evening Girls members pose while berry picking at camp. Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp, located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/200/rec/8
Breakfast on the porch: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls sit at a long table for breakfast. ca. 1899-1917. Photograph. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/146/rec/10
Knitting Party: Lili Shapiro is shown here sitting in the middle of the knitting party. Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/285/rec/16
“May 30, 1915,” Saturday Evening Girls members: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. May 30, 1915 photograph which was created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/143/rec/26

Anna Levin, Ethel Epstein Maysles, and Lina Rectes at the beach: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/249/rec/46
Annie and Eva Geneco sit outside: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/84/rec/48

Five Saturday Evening Girls members pose for photograph. They are wearing what were called gym skirts which we would call culottes: Members of the Saturday Evening Girls could participate in a summer camp located at Wingaersheek Beach in West Gloucester, Massachusetts that was supported by Helen Osborne Storrow. Early 1900s photograph with this image having been created from a slide in 1995. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/220/rec/139

Young woman wraps herself with garden hose, 1917. Presumably photographed in Gloucester but for sure Massachusetts. Photographer not given. Barbara Maysles Kramer Saturday Night Girls Collection, University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. Fair use license. https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll40/id/147/rec/370

Looks like fun. Helen Osborne Storrow was married to investment banker James Storrow for whom Boston’s Storrow Drive is named. He led a campaign to create the Charles River Basin and preserve and improve the riverbanks as a public park (Boston’s Esplanade where our annual the Pops Go The Fourth of July concert is held. Storrow Drive came later and was not something his (by then) widow Helen Osborne Storrow would have wanted. Mrs. Storrow was a major philanthropist; along with the Saturday Night Girls Club which also had a pottery component she supported West End House which in her time was in Boston’s West End but later moved to Allston (part of Boston) and is where my children learned to swim. Later during the COVID pandemic it housed a COVID testing program and food support programs that delivered groceries to local families in need.