Image of an aerial view of the Boston, Massachusetts, city block corner of Washington St. and Common St. with a complex of buildings offering furnishings sold by B.A. Atkinson & Company; variety of horse-drawn vehicles visible in streets surrounding the buildings; vignette of a comfortably furnished home interior at top left; full-length portrait of owner Byron A. Atkinson wearing a coat and holding a top hat at right. "Geo. H. Walker & Co. Lith. Boston."--text, bottom left margin. "Established 1873. Furniture Bedding Carpets Stoves & Ranges Goods on Instalments [sic] Amount of sales in 1887 one million dollars"--text, left of image. "Floral Place Annex. Nassau Hall. Turne Hall."--text, center of image. "827 Washington St. Boston Mass. Jan. 1, 1888."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.98 x 69.85 cm (21 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
Advertising--House furnishings Boston (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Dwellings--Pictorial works Furniture--Pictorial works Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works Portraits Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Household Large Size Furnishings The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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