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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Wakefield Square, circa 1940s

Item

Title
Wakefield Square, circa 1940s
Description
"Downtown Wakefield is illuminated for the Christmas holidays in this photo taken sometime in the early 1940s. The one-story building at the left of the photo was built in 1939, and the building on the same block, near the center of the photo, was built soon after. This latter building housed Smith's Drug Store and the Cubby Hole (Stationery). Further down the street another one-story building was built around the same time at the site of the old Walton (Odd Fellows) Building." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 1997
Photo courtesy of Bourdon Studios.
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)
D'Onofrio, Jayne M.
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Date
ca. 1940-1949
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
Subject
Streets
Christmas lights
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
1 picture : b&w
Extent
24 x 34 cm.