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Horse car, West End Street Railway

Collection Type

  • Photography

GUSN

GUSN-318115

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Description

Signs on the streetcar read "Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Mt. Pleasant & Shawmut Ave."

Details

Descriptive Terms

public transit
horsecars
transportation
horse-drawn vehicles
gelatin dry plate negatives

Additional Identification Number

Negative Number JB158

Physical Description

1 gelatin dry plate glass negative

Collection Code

PC066

Collection Name

John Booras collection of glass plate negatives

Reference Code

PC066.158

Date Notes

1800's

Places

Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Bunker Hill (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

gelatin dry plate negatives

Other Organizations

West End Street Railway Company

Subjects

Mt. Pleasant Avenue (Roxbury, Mass.)
Shawmut Avenue (Roxbury, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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