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Allen's Meat Market on Bowden St.

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Record 89/1387
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Catalog date 04/15/2004
Category 8: Communication Artifact
Classification Carriages & Animal Powered Vehicles
Grocery stores
Collection Bowd Osborne color slides
Description A sepia photo of a horse drawn wagon with several milk cans in the back. Behind the wagon is a store front in a house with a wood frame for an awning. Standing under the frame are two men and a women. Hanging in the doorway is the carcass of a small animal about the size of a lamb.
Identified as Earnest Allen Meat Market. Left: Earnest Allen, Center: Etta Humphery, Mr. Schackley driver of Team. The market was located on Bowden Street. The building was moved to behind 2 Bowden Street, and is presently 4 Bowden Street.
Field 01 Bowden
Home Location BW Slide Carousel Conf. Rm. Wood Shelf#3
Object ID 1961-001-01140
Object Name Transparency, Slide
People Allen, Earnest
Humphery, Etta
Schackley, Mr.
Search Terms Marblehead Business
Sub-category Documentary Artifact
Subjects Horse teams
Milkmen
Title Allen's Meat Market on Bowden St.
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Rev. 1.0a 1/2009 Contact the Historical Commission at 781-639-3425 or e-mail us (please include the "Object ID" number) at:    butlerw@marblehead.org
Last modified on: January 05, 2009