ca. 1870
GUSN-202267
View of commercial buildings and street traffic, corner of Pearl Street and Milk Street. Numerous signs for businesses are mounted to the exteriors of the buildings, including that of the Pearl Street House.
business (commercial function)
freight
urban environments
wagons (cargo vehicles)
carts
exterior views
stores
commercial buildings
Palladian windows
storefronts
façades
albumen prints
photographs
Recto: [stamped with photographer's name and address:] Photo by C. G. H. Drew, Tremont St. Under Boston Museum; Verso of mount: Pearl Street & Milk Street Site of [illegible] in Post Office Square Boston, Massachusetts burned in Great Fire of November 1872 identified by Robert Severy4/21/1981 {Photo taken between 1868-1875 Gift of State Street Bank 4/81}
OVP Photo Database Number 54
OVP Number OVP0055
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
April 1981
PC001.01.TMP.055
10.125 x 13.125 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of State Street Bank
C. & G.H. Drew (Firm) (Photographic studio)
albumen prints
photographs
C.W. Sweetland & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Coverly, Rogers & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
F.S. Merritt (Boston, Mass.)
Pearl Street House (Boston, Mass.)
Power & Cleland Stencil & Steel Letter Cutters (Boston, Mass.)
Valentine's Printing Rooms (Boston, Mass.)
Horses
Signs and signboards
Working animals
Boston (Mass.)
Milk Street (Boston, Mass.)
Pearl Street (Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Ink on recto; liquid damage across bottom of mount; staining and foxing across verso of mount.
Item
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