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GUSN-250342
Broadside advertising an auction for dwelling houses, located on the "southerly side" of Eighth Street, between L and M Streets in Boston. The property was divided into six lots and the auction occurred on Saturday, May 11, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
"This is a rare chance for a workingman to obtain a small homestead cheap within his means and on easy terms of payment."
auctions
auctioneers
houses
working class
broadsides (notices)
posters
announcements
prints (visual works)
1 broadside
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.02.263
20.75 x 14 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Lunt, Alphonso Moses, 1837-1917 (Printer)
broadsides (notices)
posters
announcements
prints (visual works)
Kilroy, Patrick
Stark, John H.
Dean, J.
Item
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