Cusson Place

Description

This sidewalk scene shows Cusson Place off S. Margin Street in the West End. A little girl is sweeping and a man is walking on the cobblestone street. Looking down the alley way, one can see clothes lines and laundry hanging between the buildings. A laundry is on the bottom floor of the building on the right.

Details

Descriptive Terms

scenes (depictions)
clothing
laundries (businesses)
alleys (streets)
lithographs
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR281

Physical Descrption

1 lithograph

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1919-01-22

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.3700.008

Acqusition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

14.5 x 9.75 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. C.K. Bolton, 1919

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

lithographs
prints (visual works)

Subjects

West End (Boston, Mass.)

Restrictions

good

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: C-D

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