Dorchester Illustration no. 2289 Burrill’s Tooth Powder
Postcard. Capton on front: Blue Hill Ave., near Franklin Field, Dorchester, Mass. With illustration of billboard for Burrill’s Tooth Powder. Postmarked Dec. 10, 1910. On verso: advertising message written as if from a friend writing a postcard message.
I believe the viewer of this scene would have been standing at the center of Blue Hill Avenue, looking east at the billboard and Franklin Field off to the right. In1910 the corner of Blue Hill Avenue and Talbot Avenue was not densely built up, although the residential streets behind were filled with housing.
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