Griffin Museum of Photography
Arthur Griffin Photographs
Arthur Griffin was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 12, 1903. Originally trained to be an illustrator, in 1929 he picked up his first camera -- a second-hand folding Brownie -- and thus began a passion that would last a lifetime.
By the mid-1930's, Arthur Griffin had become the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post -- a two-page layout on New England.
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- Snow714
- Buildings644
- Churches553
- Boats502
- Piers & wharves378
- Monuments & memorials339
- Houses300
- Rivers256
- North and Central America7,812
- United States6,584
- Massachusetts4,303
- Suffolk (county)1,975
- Boston1,962
- New England1,312
- Middlesex (county)785
- Maine677
- Photographs7,826
Current results range from 1924 to 1975
- "L" St. Brownies No 120
- "T" T wharf A21
- Air shots 128
- Air shots 26
- Airport21
- Ancient & honorables 218
- Andover19
- Angel (the wrestler)69
- Angel 13
- Angel 213
- Arnold Arboretum12
- Around Boston 110
- Around Boston 23
- Autos old cars at Framingham29
- Autumn18
- B.U. star Harry Agannis A14
- B.U. star Harry Agannis B12
- Back Bay 121
- Back Bay 21
- Back Cove - Maine29
- Baseball A15
- Beacon Hill 124
- Beacon Hill 24
- Berkshires16
- Bette Davis 18
- Bette Davis 227
- Blue Hill pottery 111
- Blue Hill pottery 24
- Boston & Maine 123
- Boston & Maine 212
- Boston 134
- Boston 23
- Boston College9
- Boston College - football A34
- Boston College - football B9
- Boston Harbor4
- Boston Light 11
- Boston Light 2, Boston light ship6
- Boston mics A2
- Boston misc A34
- Boston misc A-232
- Boston misc A-360
- Boston misc A-440
- Boston misc B-122
- Boston misc B-352
- Boston night 18
- Boston night 22
- Boston originals (MH)14
- Boston stock market 15
- Boston summer A14
- Boston summer B3
- Boston waterfront industrial, 1930's & 1940's28
- Boston winter a99
- Boston winter b13
- Boston winter snow removal A10
- Boston winter snow removal B6
- Boston/Louisburg Square4
- Boxing 122
- Boxing 236
- Bradford, Bob 24
- Brown students A5
- Brown students B25
- Bunker Hill 122
- Bunker Hill 24
- Cambridge, MA18
- Camden - ship building15
- Camden, ME6
- Cape - canal5
- Cape Cod - windmill, boats39
- Cape Cod 1101
- Cape Cod 22
- Cape Cod mural A5
- Cape Cod mural B5
- Cardinal O'Connell (Mass for) 28
- Carriage auction A6
- Carriage auction B8
- Charles River 161
- Charles River 1 - swimming fun6
- Charles River 23
- Charles River 2 - boats, etc.19
- Charles River 2 - swimming fun19
- Charlestown 15
- Charlestown 28
- Cheese cake B11
- Cheesecake A3
- Churches - winter20
- Churches 121
- Churches 1a74
- Churches 1b66
- Churches 214
- City Hospital11
- Civil War vets 1945 A3
- Civil War vets 1945 B2
- Clapp-Duxbury 223
- Clover Club 14
- Common 111
- Common 23
- Concord, Mass 143
- Concord, Mass 216
- Conn 140
- Constitution 17
- Constitution 25
- Construction 15
- Construction 23
- Copley Square 24
- Copley Square plowing8
- Court House 123
- Court House 24
- Covered bridges65
- Covered bridges - winter6
- Covered wagons 29
- Cranberries bogs - Cape - Cod19
- Cranberry19
- Cranberry 131
- Cranberry 24
- Crowds 18
- Curley 130
- Curley 228
- Cushing ABP 111
- Cushing ABP 211
- Custom House 129
- Custom House 27
- Cuttyhunk5
- Cymbals6
- Dartmouth - track11
- Dartmouth 155
- Dartmouth a42
- Deerfield NH 25
- Dewey4
- Dickens A6
- Dickens B5
- Dog shows 115
- Dog shows 223
- Drive in theatre (1939) 220
- Ducks (New England)10
- Dude ranch Cape Cod 112
- Durgan Park Restaurant about 195010
- Easter 13
- Easter 23
- Enfield 111
- Enfield 29
- Fairs 148
- Fairs 24
- Falmouth station master 212
- Faneuil Hall 129
- Faneuil Hall 213
- Farley (James A.) 112
- Farley (James A.) 25
- Fenway Park3
- Ferriss A73
- Ferriss B8
- Fire dept 223
- Fire in Bershires3
- Fish pier 140
- Fish pier 222
- Fishing (ME)18
- Fitchburg High5
- Flag7
- Folder 8112
- Fort Andrews 22
- Fort Warren 13
- Fort Warren 29
- Frankfurter (Felix) 121
- Frankfurter (Felix) 213
- Garden 26
- Gardner Museum 113
- Gardner Museum 23
- Gloucester78
- Hagg 18
- Hagg 210
- Hallowean17
- Harvard 173
- Harvard 287
- Harvard Observatory15
- Hatch Shell 120
- Hatch Shell 210
- Hildegard7
- Hildredth - gov, Maine 112
- Historic (houses) 128
- Historic 15
- Historic 212
- Historic houses 26
- Hoover (Herbert) A2
- Hoover B1
- Horses A2
- Horses B3
- Horseshoeing A5
- Hudson town meeting B7
- Hurricane, Sep 1938 133
- Hurricane, Sep 1938 29
- India Wharf5
- Industry 110
- Industry 225
- Ipswich, Mass1
- Joe Louis 14
- Johnson's house - Cambridge12
- Kerrigan, John. Mayor of Boston short while 15
- Kings Chapel 14
- Kings Chapel 21
- Landon 213
- Lexington40
- Library 120
- Library 27
- Lighthouse 110
- Lighthouse 219
- Lighthouses - Mass21
- Lincoln - statue14
- Lion cubs 139
- Lion cubs 211
- Log drive a-0113
- Log drive a-11
- Log drive- Saco River 119
- Mackeral fishing - Maine 194440
- Maine118
- Maine - Biddeford section52
- Maine - Sea Coast Mission22
- Maine - lighthouses99
- Maine - lobsters 161
- Maine a28
- Maine b23
- Marblehead118
- Marionetts 14
- Marionetts 210
- Market & area 115
- Market & area 213
- Marthas Vineyard56
- Mass18
- Mass General Hosp 23
- Mass General Hosp. 13
- Massachusetts22
- Matinicus Island ME21
- Mayflower 117
- Mica mines 9/19/43 14
- Mica mines 9/19/43 218
- Monhegan20
- Morgan horses 113
- Mt. Washington13
- Museum of Fine Arts 156
- Museum of Fine Arts 227
- Mussels11
- NH - Franconia 126
- NH - Franconia 26
- NH MT Washington - 1940 26
- NH Mt Washington - 1940 119
- NH fall church - Franklin P. House3
- NH maple sugaring10
- Nan - clam bake85
- Nantucket - Siasconset 116
- Nantucket - Siasconset 22
- Nantucket - general 182
- Nantucket - general 23
- Nantucket - harbor31
- Nantucket - houses 121
- Nantucket - lighthouses23
- Nantucket - people12
- Nantucket houses 21
- Nantucket wind mill - whaling museum45
- Narrangasset 24
- Narrow gauge 15
- Narrow gauge 222
- Natural History Museum, Boston - 1942 - Boylston St.8
- Needham town hall2
- Ness, Peter 3/10/406
- New England1
- New England (misc) 1A108
- New England (misc) 1B138
- New England (misc) 2A24
- New Hampshire 1a48
- New Hampshire 1b78
- New Hampshire 22
- New Harbor28
- New York FDR grave Hyde Park1
- Newton 15
- Newton 21
- North Conway 1945 (2)4
- North Conway 1945(1)27
- Old North Church 1, St. Stephen's Church49
- Old North Church 2, St. Stephen's Church16
- Old South Church14
- Old State House 117
- Old State House 211
- Old Town Indians8
- Old cars/Greenfield 118
- Old cars/Greenfield 210
- Park Street & graveyard 117
- Park Street Church & graveyard (Old Granary)7
- Paul Revere House 13
- Paul Revere House 25
- Paul Revere ride 115
- Paul Revere ride 26
- Paul Revere statue at Old North Church4
- People - Maine54
- People - Maine 21
- Pilot boat4
- Plymouth 163
- Plymouth 214
- Positive process9
- Potatoes 120
- Potatoes 22
- Provincetown 147