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T Wharf and Fish District, Boston, Mass.

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Location Note

Postcards - Mass - Boston - Wharves

GUSN

GUSN-188106

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Description

This color postcard depicts Boston's T Wharf and the Fish District along the harbor. Brick storehouses line an elevated railway and roads. Workers load and unload carts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wharves
elevated railroads
harbors
postcards
photographs

Physical Description

1 postcard

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1911-10-26

Reference Code

PC001.03.01.TMP.001

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

postcards
photographs

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) Original in Postcards - Mass - Boston - Wharves

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Postcards - Mass - Boston - Wharves

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