1858
GUSN-202273
The Scollay Building has signs advertising the businesses located there.
streetscapes
exterior views
commercial buildings
façades
albumen prints
photographs
Verso of mount: Old Scollay Bldg. Boston 1858 Gift of Mrs. Alex Porter 11 April 1919 [stamped:] Duplicate [stamped:] Duplicate Sell or Exchange S.P.N.E.A.
OVP Photo Database Number 60
OVP Number OVP0059.1
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
11 April 1919
PC001.01.TMP.059-1
14 x 10.75 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mrs. Alex S. Porter.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
albumen prints
photographs
G.R. Hitchborn (Boston, Mass.)
Geo. H. Chapin Farm Agency (Boston, Mass.)
H.A. Perry (Boston, Mas.)
S.R. Nile's Advertising Agency (Boston, Mass.)
Scollay Square (Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Small red piece of debris attached to recto, top right quarter; two (ink) fingerprint smudges; piece of bottom right edge of mount missing.
Item
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