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Williams Home looking towards Forest Hills, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Franklin Park

GUSN

GUSN-195355

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Description

A distant view along a road of the Williams Home in Franklin Park in Boston. The two-story Italianate building has a bell and flagpole on its roof. A group of men work near the road in the left foreground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

parks (recreation areas)
Italianate (North American architecture styles )
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000471
AccessID 697
Other identifier HNEDID-000471

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.008

Date Notes

ca. 1887

Places

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

Record Details

Originator

Brown, Edmund K. (photographer)

Material Type

photographs

Other People

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

Subjects

Emerald Necklace (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Park (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Franklin Park

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