1872
GUSN-202354
A fire engine is in front of the Old South Meeting House.The business establishments lining Washington Street can be seen. Rubble lays in the street in the foreground.
streetscapes
meeting houses (religious buildings)
churches (buildings)
commercial buildings
disasters
fire engines
historic sites
albumen prints
photographs
Recto: [scratched into negative:] BLACK PHOTO 59; Verso of mount: [circled: 20 5/8 x 16 3/4 5762] [in a different hand, in ink:] Washington St. Boston looking towards Old South Meeting House after the Boston Fire Gift of Mr. Baldwin Coolidge, fall of 1918 {Old South Meeting House Washington St. (School/Water-Bromfield/Franklin) Boston Gift of Baldwin Coolidge. Fall of 1918 Copy neg. #11328-B}
OVP Photo Database Number 142
OVP Number OVP0115
Negative Number 11328-B
1 photographic print ; 16 x 12 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
1918
PC001.01.TMP.115
16.125 x 12..375 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Baldwin Coolidge, 1918.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896 (Photographer)
albumen prints
photographs
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.)
Top left corner of mount missing; light staining (including liquid) across verso of mount.
Item
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