Chimney Sweeps - Not the kind that clean them out but the kind that clean them up. Scene is Purchase street, main thoroughfare of New Bedford, where hurricane toppled every fourth chimney or thereabouts and uprooted every third tree.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Chimney Sweeps - Not the kind that clean them out but the kind that clean them up. Scene is Purchase street, main thoroughfare of New Bedford, where hurricane toppled every fourth chimney or thereabouts and uprooted every third tree.

[ca. September 1944]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Weather: Hurricane: 1944

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