Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
GUSN-198682
A detailed engraving of Pier No. 2, Lewis Wharf, Peabody's Australian and South African Packets office. Ships and cargo are between this building and No. 1 next door for Peabody's Australasian Packets. Men on the pier move cargo and load it onto wagons, or sit on barrels talking.
piers (supporting elements)
wharves
cargo vessels
packets (watercraft)
barks (sailing vessels)
wagons (cargo vehicles)
waterfronts
barrels (containers)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collections number PR304
1 engraving on newsprint
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1934-03-20
GC002.01.MA.3800.007
Gift
5 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mrs. Walter K. Watkins, 1934
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Lewis Wharf (Boston, Mass.)
Good
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
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