Apartment buildings, front exterior, 58 Billerica Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 8097-B

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Collection Type

Photography

Date

1923-11-05

GUSN

GUSN-375071

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Boston Building Department photographic collection, 1920s-1930s
Negatives
Boston, General
Apartment buildings, front exterior, 58 Billerica Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 8097-B
(current record)

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Boston Building Department photographic collection, 1920s-1930s
- Negatives
  - Boston, General

Description

The image depicts the front exterior of a row of brick apartment buildings on Billerica Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The street is cobblestone and a vintage car is parked in front of one of the buildings. Each building has multiple stories with uniformly spaced windows. Visible stairways lead up to street-level entrances.

Details

Descriptive Terms

apartments
residential structures
exterior views
streets
automobiles
photographs
gelatin dry plate negatives
negatives (photographic)

Additional Identification Number

IMLS Negative Barcode NP007024
B-Series negative 8097-B

Physical Descrption

1 glass plate negative

Collection Code

PC016

Collection Name

Boston Building Department photographic collection, 1920s-1930s

Date of Acquisition

ca. 1960

Reference Code

PC016.001.002.8097-B

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Boston (Mass.). Building Dept.

Material Type

gelatin dry plate negatives
negatives (photographic)

Description Level

Item

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