1961
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
GUSN-362374
This 1961 image by Anthony's Studio depicts a winter street scene in front of Ace DeLuxe Cleansers and Pessin's Food Mart (Pessin's Foodland) on Harold Street in Roxbury. Two young girls in winter clothing and one older man smoking a cigarette are standing in Ace's doorway. The girls are looking at a black and white dog that is standing across from them on the sidewalk.
This building is no longer standing. This section of Harold Street is now residential and made up of single-family homes.
laundries (businesses)
grocery stores
children (people by age group)
dog (animal)
winter
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.017
Library & Archives Purchase
March 11, 1961
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Anthony's Studio (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Anthony's Studio
Item
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivisit, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
In the 1960s, Ace DeLuxe Cleansers was owned and operated by a Mrs. Celia Cohen. Pessin's Food Mart (also known as Pessin's Foodland), owned by Leo Pessin, operated at this location until 1963. Ace's left the location by 1964.
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