ca. 1872
GUSN-202282
View of commercial buildings on the corner of Tremont Street and Eliot Street. Boston common is in the distance. Streetcar tracks are in the foreground.
business (commercial function)
awnings
urban environments
views (visual works)
streets
stores
barbershops
commercial buildings
storefronts
gelatin silver prints
photographs
Recto of mount: Tremont St Cor Eliot St Dup [in a different hand, in ink:] Tremont Street, corner of Eliot St. Boston Common in distance [in a different hand, in pencil:] Beyond Boylston; Verso of mount: Tremont St. (beyond Boylston) Boston, MA [stamped with:] Given Mar. 20, 1934 By Mrs. Walter K. Watkins {copy neg. # 12005-B}
OVP Photo Database Number 69
OVP Number OVP0069.A
Negative Number 12005-B
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
20 March 1934
PC001.01.TMP.069-A
9.25 x 11.875 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mrs. Walter K. Watkins.
gelatin silver prints
photographs
Axel Bloom Hair Cutter (Boston, Mass.)
James Barrett Plumber (Boston, Mass.)
Signs and signboards
Street railroads. Track
Boston (Mass.)
Eliot Street (Boston, Mass.)
Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)
Oxidative-reductive deterioration; pieces of top edge of mount missing; mount torn and damaged.
Item
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