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Two men using wooden crates as rafts during a flood, Roxbury, Mass., 1886

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1886

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Flood of 1886: Mounted

GUSN

GUSN-190884

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Description

Two men use wooden crates as rafts on Whittier Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts during the flood of 1886.

Details

Descriptive Terms

floods (natural events)
events
exterior views
commercial buildings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0070

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0150.001

Image Dimensions

4 x 9 2/16 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Originator

Possibly Gray, Samuel (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

African American men
Whittier St. (Roxbury, Mass.)
Tremont Street (Roxbury, Mass.)
Children
Street Scene

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Flood of 1886: Mounted

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