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View of Coolidge Corner, Brookline, Mass., ca. 1904-1912

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1904-1912

Location Note

Geo: Mass: Brookline: Public and Commercial\n \n Geo: Mass: Brookline: Commercia

GUSN

GUSN-225419

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Description

Cars are parked along Beacon Street in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

streetscapes
automobiles
business (commercial function)
commercial buildings
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0470.0050.004

Places

Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Coolidge Corner (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

New England News Company (Photographer)

Material Type

photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Subjects

Architectural photography
Beacon Street (Brookline, Mass.)

Accruals Note

Accoridng to Ken Liss from the Brookline Historical Society, this photo is from sometime after 1912. "The building on the left, the Pierce Block, was built after a January 1913 fire that destroyed an earlier wooden commercial block. The Coolidge Corner building, just past the S.S. Pierce Building on the right, opened in 1912."

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo: Mass: Brookline: Public and Commercial

Geo: Mass: Brookline: Commercia

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