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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West and a caretaker sitting on benches that line the relic room at Faneuil Hall. The room enters frame along the bottom edge and stretches back on an angle to the right. A wall lines the left side of the room. Doorways stand equally spaced along the wall. Between each doorway hangs a large painting. Benches sit beneath each painting. Mertie West and the caretaker sit on the second bench from the left. Both face to the right. Along the top of the wall at left, rifles are mounted over each door frame. Above the rifles, framed portraits line the top of the wall and continue onto the back wall. Flags also extend out from the top of the wall at left. Back in the corner of the room, a piano stands. NRHP reference # 66000368 Text from negative sleeve: 2352. Eastern trip October 1947 Boston 1 Mertie West on corner below Old State House. At her left in the street is the cobblestone circle marking the site of the Boston massacre. It is right behind the auto 2 & 3 Two views of Mertie West reading the printed sign in Old South Church. It said that George Washington came into the Church after he drove British out entering thru a door in the balcony at right 4 Mertie West and caretaker and guard introphy [sic] and relic room of Fanueil [sic] Hall 5 & 6 Two pictures of Mertie West at the Public Market 7 & 8 Two views of tablets in wall of cemetery of Old North Church One with Mertie West
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