Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Massachusetts--Boston / Names: Old South Meeting House (Boston, Mass.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Historical marker on the side of the Old South Meeting House. The marker reads, "Old South Meeting House. Built in 1729. Here were held the town-meetings that ushered in the Revolution. Here Samuel Adams James Otis and Joseph Warren exhorted. Here the men of Boston proved themselves independent courageous freemen worthy to raise issues which were to concern the liberty and happiness of millions yet unborn."
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: View of the Old South Meeting House from further down Washington Street. The building has a tall spire and a clock on front. There is a man walking smoking a pipe walking toward the camera. There is a horse and carriage at the left and another one beyond. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. There are buildings lining both sides of the street. A sign at the left reads, "Old South Theater."
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: View of the Old South Meeting House from further down Washington Street. The building has a tall spire and a clock on front. There is a horse and carriage at the left and another one at its left. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. There are buildings lining both sides of the street. A sign at the left reads, "Old South Theater."
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Old South Meeting House with pedestrians and a horse-drawn wagon in front. There are other buildings visible behind the meeting house. A man walks across the street wearing a hat. There are light streaks at the left and bottom of the negative.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A poorly-lit photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West and an unidentified woman standing down the street from the Old South Meeting House in the Downtown Crossing neighborhood of Boston. Washington Street spans the width of the image along the bottom edge. It extends back through the center of the image, curving to the left before disappearing behind buildings. Mertie West and another woman stand in the middle of the street at center. Mertie is leftmost and stands in profile, facing right. The woman at right turns her back to the camera. Buildings line both sides of Washington Street as it stretches into the background. At right and in the near distance, the Old South Meeting House stands. The church's bell tower juts out towards the street. A clock is inset on the near side of the tower. The tower is capped by a tall steeple. Four punched holes line the left edge.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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