Rutherford Avenue near Tibbetts Town Way, 1913

Title:: Rutherford Avenue near Tibbetts Town Way, 1913
Description:: Rutherford Avenue near Tibbetts Town Way, 1913. The northern side of Rutherford Avenue from the prison to Sullivan Square still shows a number of blacksmith shops and wagon repair sheds and sail lofts that are today devoted to making canvas for wagon tops or awnings. Some of the largest stables for horses used to be just off the avenue, and today one of the largest trucking concerns in the city maintains its garages nearby. In recent years there have been a number of general alarm fires along Rutherford Ave., the worst of them occurring on where only the fact that the wind, coming from the west instead of from the south, saved the whole town from threatened destruction.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: 1913
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Stores & shops
Commercial streets
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Rutherford Avenue District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Boston Herald
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-288-A1