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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. NRHP reference # 66000368 Photograph of Mertie West sitting in Faneuil Hall's Great Hall and looking towards the stage. The shaft of a fluted column stands along the left edge in the foreground. Beyond it and to the right, chairs sit in horizontal rows that extend towards a stage in the near distance. Off-center to the right, Mertie West sits in a chair 3 rows away from camera. Her back is towards camera as she faces towards the stage. The stage sits in the near distance in partial view, off-center to the left. Chairs sit in a row along the front of the stage. Behind them, busts stand against the auditorium's back wall. Several large paintings hang from the back wall as well. At far right, a gallery is visible. It is supported and decorated with Doric columns. Text from negative sleeve: 2350. Eastern trip Boston October 1947 1 Interior Fanueihl [sic] Hall showing painting over stage Daniel Webster replying to Hayne 2 Mertie West sitting in Fanueil [sic] Hall. Painting of George Washington at right of stage 3 Mertie West standing at entrance First Methodist Church in Boston in Italian center 4 WEST street down by the market 5 & 6 View of Holy Name parade from our hotel window (Statler) 7 Mertie West talking to caretaker at Bunker Hill monument 8 Mertie West at corner at entrance to Bunker Hill monument park
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2350_002 ark:/21198/zz002j3kv6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Decoration and ornament--Federal style Galleries (Display spaces)--Massachusetts--Boston Auditoriums--Massachusetts--Boston Sightseers--Massachusetts--Boston West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Faneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.)
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