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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Main Street at Lawrence Street, circa 1890

Item

Title
Main Street at Lawrence Street, circa 1890
Description
"This photograph looks south toward downtown, capturing a piece of the lower Common and Lake Quannapowitt. The unpaved road leads toward Salem Street. Pictured on the Common is the bandstand, erected in 1885 and the brick firehouse that was moved from the Common in 1891." - Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Donofrio.
Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2010
Photo courtesy of the Wakefield Historical Society.
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)
D'Onofrio, Jayne M.
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Wakefield Common (Wakefield, Mass.)
Date
ca. 1890
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
[Wakefield, Mass.] : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
Subject
Streets
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
1 picture : b&w
Extent
23 x 31 cm.