Looking easterly on Cornhill from Scollay Square, Boston, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1897-06-07

GUSN

GUSN-318239

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Description

The Bowdoin Square streetcar, Washington and Roxbury Streets, is going past a construction site on Cornhill. A sign on the back of the streetcar advertises a Pittsburgh-Boston baseball game. The Nathan L. Chaffin restaurant at 63 Cornhill is slightly left of center in the image. The W.J. Talbot lunch room is at 71 Cornhill. D.C. Colesworthy, bookseller, is on the right side of the image at 66 Cornhill. A paperboy is selling newspapers to pedestrians on the right side of the image.

Details

Descriptive Terms

public transit
subways
construction sites
streetcars
streetscapes
exterior views
commercial buildings
restaurants
booksellers
gelatin dry plate negatives

Additional Identification Number

Negative Number JB254
Original Negative Number 897

Physical Descrption

1 gelatin dry plate glass negative

Collection Code

PC066

Collection Name

John Booras collection of glass plate negatives

Reference Code

PC066.254

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Boston Transit Commission (Publisher)

Material Type

gelatin dry plate negatives

Subjects

Paperboys
Architectural photography
Cornhill Street (Boston, Mass.)
Court Street (Boston, Mass.)

Accruals Note

Building fronts, signs, people, trolley car, construction equipment, Sears Crescent, right. Neg. 6 1/2 X 8 1/2.

Description Level

Item

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