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1956
GUSN-194393
For eighty-seven years, the Boston Globe headquarters was located on "Newspaper Row," a section of Washington Street in downtown Boston, before moving to Dorchester in 1958. Until then, for many Bostonians, part of any day included catching the latest news before it was printed. Here we can see the most recent headlines scrawled in chalk for passersby to see.
newspapers
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.059
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
Item
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