Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Massachusetts--Boston - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Park with benches, trees, and pedestrians. It may be Boston Common or the Public Garden. There are streetlamps throughout, as well as women walking with strollers.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph of H. H. West walking away from the front door of the Paul Revere House in Boston's North End neighborhood. Along the bottom edge, a sliver of N Square stretches on an upward angle to the right. At far left, 2 young children play with a toy car on the sidewalk that passes in front of the Paul Revere House. The Paul Revere House stands on the far side of the street. It is viewed close-up and at an angle from the front. The timber-constructed dwelling stands 2-stories tall with lattice-pane windows lining both floors. An American flag extends out from the center of the building. H. H. West stands in the distance at far right, facing camera as he walks away from the house. A building adjacent to the Paul Revere House is barely visible standing along the right edge.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing outside the First Church of Christ, Scientist's southern facade in Boston. A brick-paved walkway extends along the bottom edge. Mertie West stands in the near distance at left, along the back edge of the walkway. She stands in profile facing right, but turns her head to the camera. Immediately behind her, a wide, short set of steps, flanked by lampposts on pedestals, descends behind her. From the steps, the walkway stretches back on an angle towards the left side of the church. To the right of the walkway, a small, landscaped lawn sits in front of the church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist stands in the background, off-center to the left. It is viewed at a slight angle from its southern facade. A half-dome, lined with arched windows, extends towards camera. A white haze washes over the majority of the image. Two streaks of bright, white light crisscross at center.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of tablets inset into the garden wall of the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston. The brick, garden wall stretches across the image. At center, one tablet is set into the wall. Tablets to the left and right of it are obscured by shadows cast by surrounding trees. The shadows naturally frame the tablet at center.
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Statue of George Washington in the Public Garden. Washington is mounted on a horse and the statue sits atop a large base. There is a tree branch in the foreground and trees and buildings in the background. There are light streaks at the bottom of the negative.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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:: Paul Revere House with a historical marker hung at the front. There are taller buildings on either side of the house. The building at the right has a sign in the window reading, in part, "Raffaele...Watch" and the other reads, "Angelo." A sign at the left of the negative reads, "Haircut 25 shave 10." Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. There is a utility pole and another object next to it at the left. There are light streaks at the bottom of the negative.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Woman ice skates on a frozen pond in the Public Garden. She wears a coat and hat and a fur muff hangs from her arm. There is a bridge behind her with people standing on it. There are trees in the background and snow on the ground.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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