ca. 1872
GUSN-202251
View of Central Wharf facing the Brock & Coy's Dining Room building, the Hill & Cook Produce Dealers building, and carts stocked with goods for transport. Ship masts and a sign for the Norfolk Steamship Line are visible in the background.
wagons (cargo vehicles)
carts
wharves
street lighting
eye-level views
commercial buildings
masts
albumen prints
photographs
Recto of mount: 9 1/4x12 3/4 14x17 1/2 1 1/2 Ch - 1/28 [underlined:] -171[?]; Verso of mount: Central Wharf in early 1870's looking toward India Wharf Portland line steamers "Forest City" + "John Brooks" [in a different hand:] E[illegible] {Gift of Edward Avery 5/24/38 Gift of State S. Bank 7/1981}
OVP Photo Database Number 38
OVP Number OVP0036
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
July 1981
PC001.01.TMP.036
19.5 x 13 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Edward Avery to State Street Bank; Gift of State Street Bank to Historic New England/SPNEA.
albumen prints
photographs
Brock & Coy's Dining Rooms (Boston, Mass.)
Hill & Cook Fruit & Produce Dealers (Boston, Mass.)
Norfolk Steamship Line (Boston, Mass.)
Commercial products
Horses
Signs and signboards
Working animals
Boston (Mass.)
Central Wharf (Boston, Mass.)
Recto scratched, lightly stained and faded; mount brittle, stained, and torn, with bottom left and right corners missing; pinholes; foxing on verso.
Item
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