Album 21: Historic Doorways and Buildings

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

ca. 1928

Location Note

85M-01-314-Z-D-0103

GUSN

GUSN-194112

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Description

The images of Boston and the surrounding area are bound with material relating to Charleston, South Carolina, and other southern areas. The album includes several hundred 3 x 4 inch photographs varying from detailed views of doorways to general elevations. The Boston images include several details of Beacon Hill doorways. Also documented are Chelsea, Dedham, Hingham, Marblehead, Melrose, Newburyport, North Andover, Northampton, Quincy, Roxbury, Salem, and Woburn, Mass.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Newport, Rhode Island; and Wiscasset, Maine.

Details

Descriptive Terms

historic buildings
doorways
exterior views
exterior elevations
photograph albums

Additional Identification Number

Album Number 21

Physical Descrption

1 photograph album; 10 3/8 x 12 7/16 inches

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Reference Code

PC009.021

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Charleston (Charleston county, South Carolina)

Record Details

Originator

Dustin, Florence, Miss (Compiler)

Material Type

photograph albums

Descriptive Terms

Salem, MA
Marblehead, MA
Dedham, MA
Melrose, MA
Portsmouth, NH
Newport, RI
Wiscasset, ME
Quincy, MA
Chelsea, MA
Hingham, MA
Newburyport, MA
North Andover, MA
Northampton, MA
Roxbury, MA
Woburn, MA
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA

Accruals Note

Previously titled "Historic Doorways and Buildings in Boston and Vicinity"

Description Level

Item

Location Note

85M-01-314-Z-D-0103

Historical/Biographical Note

Historical/Biographical Note

This album was compiled by Miss Florence Dustin of Arlington Street, Cambridge, Mass., circa the 1920s to early 1930s.

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