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Ralph Waldo Emerson School, Shirley St., Roxbury, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

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

GUSN

GUSN-195175

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Description

A view of the front façade of the two-story, brick Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School at 6 Shirley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Completed in July 1924, the school was scheduled to open that fall. The doors are surmounted with pediments broken on the bottom that present figures reading books. A car parked across the street has a license plate number that probably dates from 1928. The School is still open today.

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Descriptive Terms

broken pediments
elementary schools (buildings)
brick (clay product)
Colonial Revival
flagpoles
friezes (ornamental areas)
exterior views
public buildings
education
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000319
AccessID 496
Other identifier HNEDID-000319

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.007

Date Notes

1928-1930s

Places

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

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Other Organizations

Boston Public Schools

Subjects

Shirley 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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