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1855
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
GUSN-198438
This engraving is a front view of the carpet store at No. 51 Washington Street. People are entering the store and there are trunks and a wagon in the foreground. The text describes the building, architect and features of Washington Street commercial buildings.
advertising
business (commercial function)
floor coverings
rugs
carpets
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR264
1 news line engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1922-03-23
GC002.01.MA.3550.002
Gift
8 x 5 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Capt. Wm. B. Clarke, 1922
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
John H. Pray & Sons Company
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
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