Fourth Street (Purchase Street), New Bedford

Title:: Fourth Street (Purchase Street), New Bedford
Description:: Black and white photo of Fourth Street (Purchase Street), New Bedford, Massachusetts, as viewed looking west from Union Street. Brick buildings containing storefronts and businesses on cobblestone street; portion of trolley car visible at right coming around track that curves onto Union Street at center left. Row of telephone poles along sidewalk in center of image; cart filled with crates parked in same area. Businesses pictured include Lemuel Holmes, attorney; shoe store; E.S. Perry, tailor; magazine and sheet music store; Armory Co. E. headquarters; Briggs and Lawrence Furniture and Carpets (banner across street); C.B. Church; F.W. Wentworth Co. Mounted on off-white cardboard.
Date:: [ca. 1860–1955]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: New Bedford Free Public Library
Main Library, room 309, cabinet U07, shelf SH10, container BX12:F027 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Photograph Collection
Subjects:: Buildings
Lawyers
Stores & shops
Business enterprises
Street railroads
Streetscape
Fourth Street
Purchase Street
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Extent:: 1 photograph : print
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6h440t74z
Terms of Use:: Rights status not evaluated.
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Notes:: Item caption: Fourth Street (Purchase Street), New Bedford.
Notes (acquisition):: George H. Reynolds to the New Bedford Free Public Library, 1929.
Notes (date):: Date supplied by cataloger.
Accession #:: 2010.001.1391
Identifier:: A9514B96-ED53-4C0F-B2B5-423191256950