undated
HGO-01-001-F-H-2
GUSN-362373
This image by an unidentified photographer depicts a street scene on Columbia Road in Dorchester, Mass., including Ernstein's (women's clothing store) and a U.S. Marine recruiting center.
Today, the building at 568 Columbia Rd. is partially extant but significantly altered. The recruiting station is gone.
clothing stores
recruiting stations
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.004
Library & Archives Purchase
c. 1960's
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Uphams Corner (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-H-2
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
Ernstein's Inc. (also known as Ernstein's Specialty Shop), a women's clothing store, operated at this location between approx. 1955 to 1972. During the 1960s, the store was owned and operated by Frank and Evelyn Kaplan of Waban, Mass.
Polks Boston City Directory: 1955, Vol. 1. Boston: R. L. Polk & Co., 1955. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bostondirectoryi00bost/page/n7/mode/2up.
Polks Boston City Directory: 1971, Vol. 2. Boston: R.L. Polk & Co., 1971. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bostondirectoryi21971bost/page/794/mode/2up?view=theater.
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