Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1953
The playground at the corner of Harbor View Street and Dorchester Avenue once was the location of a school building. Constructed between 1874 and 1884 the school building was first called the Everett Primary School (different from the Everett School on Sumner Street). Later it was known as the Harbor View Street School. By the time the photo was taken in 1953 for publication in the Boston Herald, the school was known as the Cora L. Etheridge School. The photo has a label on the back with info: an old wooden structure, with portable, which had been in use for many years. The main building had two wings angled off from the central structure.
Cora Etheridge seems to have been an Assistant at the school.
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