Poster advertising sale of land on "Quincy Street" in 1853 (the present St. Martin Street)

Title:: Poster advertising sale of land on "Quincy Street" in 1853 (the present St. Martin Street)
Description:: Poster advertising sale of land on "Quincy Street" in 1853 (the present St. Martin Street). The oration printed on the poster is a ponderously humorous declaration in spread-eagle style, mingling fact with fiction and referring, for a fuller account of the glories of our history, to Pilgrim's Progress and Fox's book of Martyrs.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: 1853
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Posters
Advertisements
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Bunker Hill Street District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Text from item: Bunker's Hill on Quincy Street, A new street leading from Bunker Hill St., to Medford St., and near Linden Street [now Baldwin Street]
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Henry P. Walsh
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-132-A3