Where are her extant images?

UMass Lowell Center for Lowell History

The bulk of Annie’s collection is housed at UMass Lowell in its Proprietor of Locks and Canals archives, Portuguese-American archives, Lowell City Engineers, Lowell Historical Society, and Lowell Housing Authority collections.

Lowell National Historical Parks owns many Annie Powell photos in its Proprietors of Locks and Canals collection.

Other institutions holding Annie’s images in their collections are Lowell Historical Society, Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Huddersfield (England), Warren G. Harding Papers, and Lowell City Hall. Souvenir photo books of Lowell, which were popular from about 1890 to 1915, seem rife with photos matching her unique technique and style. She was also known to sell images for postcards which were the rage in the early 1900s.

Finally, her descendants maintain possession of her final artifacts. Many private collectors, including our organization, own cabinet cards and postcards.