1897-06-07
GUSN-318239
The Bowdoin Square streetcar, Washington and Roxbury Streets, is going past a construction site on Cornhill. A sign on the back of the streetcar advertises a Pittsburgh-Boston baseball game. The Nathan L. Chaffin restaurant at 63 Cornhill is slightly left of center in the image. The W.J. Talbot lunch room is at 71 Cornhill. D.C. Colesworthy, bookseller, is on the right side of the image at 66 Cornhill. A paperboy is selling newspapers to pedestrians on the right side of the image.
public transit
subways
construction sites
streetcars
streetscapes
exterior views
commercial buildings
restaurants
booksellers
gelatin dry plate negatives
Negative Number JB254
Original Negative Number 897
1 gelatin dry plate glass negative
PC066
John Booras collection of glass plate negatives
PC066.254
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston Transit Commission (Publisher)
gelatin dry plate negatives
Paperboys
Architectural photography
Cornhill Street (Boston, Mass.)
Court Street (Boston, Mass.)
Building fronts, signs, people, trolley car, construction equipment, Sears Crescent, right. Neg. 6 1/2 X 8 1/2.
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