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Men standing in front of Warren Street businesses

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

n.d.

GUSN

GUSN-202430

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Description

Informal group portrait of unidentified men standing in front of businesses on Warren Street, Roxbury, Mass., both on the sidewalk and in the street. Businesses include a carpentry, blacksmith, coppersmith, and mason and jobber shops.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wagons (cargo vehicles)
exterior views
streets
commercial buildings
albumen prints
photographs

Inscription

[TBT.]

Additional Identification Number

OVP Photo Database Number 218
OVP Number OVP0221
Negative Number 10859-B

Physical Description

1 photographic print : 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1923-11-22

Reference Code

PC001.01.TMP.221

Image Dimensions

10 1/4 x 14 1/8 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Bostonian Society.

Record Details

Originator

Folsom, A. H. (Augustine H.), 1800-1910 (Photographer)

Material Type

albumen prints
photographs

Subjects

Men
Signs and signboards
Roxbury (Mass.)
Warren Street (Roxbury, Mass.)

Restrictions

Top left edge of print missing; light staining on recto; pieces of top edge of mount missing; liquid stains on recto of mount.

Description Level

Item

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