1960
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
GUSN-362369
This 1960 image taken by Anthony's Studio depicts a stretch of Blue Hill Ave with the Ashmont Supply Co. hardware store featured heavily in the foreground.
Today, this building is gone and the site is now a vacant lot.
hardware stores
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.016
Library & Archives Purchase
Dec. 10, 1960
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Anthony's Studio (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Anthony's Studio
Ashmont Supply Company (Boston, Mass.)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
Ashmont Supply Co. operated at this location from approx. 1960 10 1967. The hardware store also had a branch at 1855 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester.
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