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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white. An out-of-focus photograph of Bunker Hill Monument, as viewed at a far distance from a street in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood. A street stretches along the image's bottom edge. Right-of-center, a cross street stretches back towards center. Several cars travel along the road, towards camera. Houses line the left side of the street and a building lines the right side of the street. Two women and a girl stand near the street corner at left. A flag waves high in the distance at center, presumably from Bunker Hill Monument. Four punched holes line the top edge at left. Text from negative sleeve: 2336. COLOR Eastern trip October 1947 Bunker Hill. 1 Mertie West reading tablet on Bunker Hill Monument 2 View up street toward Bunker Hill from street car street in Charlestown 3 Mertie West at base Colonel Prescott's statue. 3 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2336_002 ark:/21198/zz002j3h6d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Streets--Massachusetts--Boston Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
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