Charlotte Cushman house - Main Street, February 9, 1945

Title:: Charlotte Cushman house - Main Street, February 9, 1945
Description:: Charlotte Cushman house - Main Street, February 9, 1945. Timothy Sawyer in 1889 wrote in "Old Charlestown" (p. 204): - "In the building next to the corner of Main and Walker Streets, the lower story of which is now occupied by Hosmer Brother as a grocery-store, Charlotte Cushman, the celebrated actress and justly distinguished woman, lived in her girlhood for several years. She had previously lived in a house on what is now called Warren Avenue, her parents having removed here from Boston in 1828. While she was a pupil in the grammar school for girls in Charlestown the trustees of the schools made an arrangement with (over) ... [description ends].
Photographer:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Name on Item:: Photo by Rev. Wolcott Cutler
Date:: February 9, 1945
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Houses
Snow
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Main Street District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler
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-296-A1