Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955

Item Information

Title:
Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955
Description:
This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.
Photographer:
Reed, Verner, 1923-
Date:
1955
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC044: Verner Reed photographic collection, 1950-1972
Subjects:
blue collar workers
labor
Mount Vernon St. (Boston, Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Beacon Hill
Extent:
1 photograph
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/194387
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
194387
Call #:
PC044.TMP.054