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ca. 1885
Verticale file 4: OVR 21-30
GUSN-198902
A colored lithograph advertising the Boston Storage Warehouse and its new building in West Chester Park--"Huntington Ave. and Back Bay cars pass near the warehouse." The facility had twelve sections to store furniture, pianos, pictures, carriages, sleighs, trunks, and "merchandise of certain kinds."
The phone number is displayed, along with the name of the general manager to contact for rates.
warehouses
storage facilities
exterior views
commercial buildings
prints (visual works)
color lithographs
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR24OVR
1 color lithograph
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.02.024
15 x 18 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Forbes Co. (Publisher)
prints (visual works)
color lithographs
fair - a few tears that cut into image
Item
Verticale file 4: OVR 21-30
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