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Dudley St. at Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1901-1930

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Modern: Public and Commercial Buildings: Unmounted

GUSN

GUSN-195171

Description

A view of the intersection of Warren Street and Dudley Street in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts. A trolley car enters the intersection along Warren Street as another approaches from Dudley Street. The Second Empire-style Hotel Dartmouth occupies the northwest corner of the intersection at 144 Dudley Street. On the opposite side of the street are a group of mercantile buildings, including the Roxbury Eye & Ear Infirmary at 24 Warren Street, and a billboard for the H. Methot Ostrich Feather Company sits above a grocer's shop. The steeple of the Dudley Street Baptist Church towers over the square and an elevated railway overpass can be seen about a block down Dudley Street.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mercantile buildings
grocery stores
hotels (public accommodations)
elevated railroads
Second Empire
billboards (site elements)
exterior views
Baptist
public transit
trolley cars
commercial buildings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000315
AccessID 492
Other identifier HNEDID-000315

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.003

Date Notes

1900s-1910s

Places

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

Record Details

Originator

Boston Post Card Co. (Photographic studio)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Hall, John Roulestone

Other Organizations

Roxbury Eye & Ear Infirmary
Methot Ostrich Feather Company

Subjects

Dudley Square (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Dudley Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Warren Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Modern: Public and Commercial Buildings: Unmounted

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