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Record 128/1387
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Catalog date 04/24/2003
Category 8: Communication Artifact
Classification Carriages & Animal Powered Vehicles
Business & Commerce
Railroads
Transportation
Buildings
Collection Snow Memorabilia Collection
Date of photo unknown
Description Photo of Boston Branch Furniture Co. on Pleasant street near Rail Road Depot with horse drawn wagons and weed filled lot where the Memorial Park is now. Showing part of Sewall Street. The building between the depot and the furniture store is the Woodfins' Bros. Express Company. A wagon and team of horses are in front of the express company. In the background, the large square house and its adjacent barn (near the present corner of Guernsey and Sewall streets) belonged to Benjamin Wormstead Woodfin and Elizabeth Wheeler Woodfin - he co-owned the express company with his sons.
Field 01 Pleasant Street/Sewall Street
Home Location EU Box 18X13 Echo Shelf#1
Object ID 2001-070-0402.02
Object Name Print, Photographic
People Woodfin, Benjamin Wormstead
Woodfin, Elizabeth Wheeler
Search Terms Marblehead Business
Railroad Station
Woodfin Bros. Express Company
Woodfin House
Sub-category Documentary Artifact
Subjects Furniture stores
Furniture
Railroad stations
Transportation
Buildings
Houses
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Last modified on: January 05, 2009