Cordis Street in summer, 1941
Item Information
- Title:
- Cordis Street in summer, 1941
- Description:
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Cordis Street in summer, 1941. Cordis Street seems from its beginning in 1799 to have been associated with some of Charlestown's most beautiful gardens. The tall brick block on the right-hand corner in the picture was erected about 1885 on the grounds of Col. Joseph Loring, a citizen of wealth and good taste and hospitality who entertained lavishly on all public days and whose tulip bed is said to have been unquestionably the best ever seen in Charlestown. All the land west of Cordis Street, as far as Green Street, was once the pasture of John Hay, whose daughter, then ten years old, from their house at Crafts Corner (now Thompson Square) first hid in the cellar and then climbed to the attic and threw corn cobs at the British soldiers on their return from the Battle of Lexington.
- Photographer:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Collector:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Name on Item:
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photo by Wolcott Cutler
- Date:
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1941
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Lantern slides
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library - Collection (local):
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Charlestown Lantern Slides
- Subjects:
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Houses
Residential streets
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)BostonCharlestown
High Street District
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : transparency
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8k71p687v
- Terms of Use:
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