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1925-1930
GUSN-305498
A black and white image of a street in Boston's North End showing a woman on the fire escape of an apartment house hanging laundry on a clothesline in the background; and in the foreground, a man in a suit and scally cap stands in front of Boston Fire Department, Engine 6. There are additional people standing and walking on the sidewalk of the street. A poster on the brick wall advertises the movie "Shore Leave" at the Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, a silent comedy made in 1925 starring Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill.
apartment houses
drying
fire escapes
fire engines
one-sheet posters
advertisements
exterior views
black-and-white negatives
1 glass negative
PC053
Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950
PC053.02.04.005.001
North End (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Yankee Publishing Incorporated (Publisher)
black-and-white negatives
Urban scenes
Scollay Square (Boston, Mass.)
Yankee Negative Collection
The item is a black and white negative, but it has been digitized as a positive image for ease of use.
Item
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