Painted electrical box on the corner of Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue. The left side of the box features a Black woman in a floral dress doing laundry, with garments hanging from a laundry line covered in text reading "Clean your heart". The front of the box features another Black woman hanging a sheet on a laundry line, with text reading "Hang up hate". The right-hand side features a third Black woman doing laundry, and an item hanging from the laundry line with text reading "Love don't hurt".
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These photos were taken by photographers employed by the Boston Public Library during the summer of 2020, as a project to document public spaces in several Boston neighborhoods during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The photos depict murals, sculptures, commemorative plaques, painted electrical boxes, and other works of public art in Roxbury, Dorchester, the South End, and surrounding areas. The collection was donated to Northeastern University by the Boston Public Library, as part of the partnership between the institutions through the Boston Research Center.
