1962
HGO-01-001-F-F-3
GUSN-362357
This 1962 image taken by Anthony's Studio depicts a street scene on Stuart Street in downtown Boston. Visible is the storefront of H.M. Sanders Co. hardware store with the letters used to spell "hardware" created from different tools. Levy Hardware's storefront is visible on the far right. Also visible on the far left of the image is the Jacob Wirth Restaurant.
This building is extant, but currently vacant.
hardware stores
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7610.001
Library & Archives Purchase
March 4, 1962
10 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Chinatown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Anthony's Studio (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-F-3
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
H.M. Sanders Co. was a hardware company founded in 1916 by Henry M. Sanders. The store operated out of this location on Stuart Street (originally Eliot Street) from its founding until 1973.
The Jacob Wirth Restaurant was a historic German-American restaurant that operated continuously from 1868 to 2018. The 1844 building it was housed in is a Boston Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
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