Black and white photographic print (printed on cabinet-size card stock) showing a street intersection with buildings and telegraph wires. Pedestrians and horse-drawn buggies are visible. The central building has signs reading "CENTRAL BLOCK" and "1874." At right is a building with signs for "blank books and stationery" and "provisions." Part of a railroad crossing sign is visible at the right edge of the photo. Inscription on back of photo in ballpoint pen reads, "Looking north from Newtonville Square toward Claflin Block." The Claflin Block was on the northeast corner of the intersection of Washington and Walnut Streets in Newtonville.
