Photograph
Collection object
2002.0294
Print H. 12.7 W. 20.3 Sheet H. 16.5 W. 21.5
Photograph, b/w, print. Broad St John St, Limerick, July 1971, by Michael Cowhey. View up centre of street from footpath on west side below junction with Mungret St. Extreme l., white wall with posters, then no. 19, Boiler Burner Supplies Ltd. Tower of St Johns Cathedral in distance centre, Advance Tyres, a rounded building at junction with Mungret St r., with advertising hoarding on corner, ad for Harp. Metal electricity pole on corner and one way sign. Person walking away on footpath r., two boys on footpath l., woman and child looking a pram at edge of road middle distance l. Motor cars parked along both sides of street. Concrete road and footpath surface foreground. Margin around, wider below, with title impressed, white on a black srtip, stuck on, the number 2 in black to its r. R/ Rubber stamped in bottom r. corner, triangle enclosing Cowhey & McMahon / Ballinacurra / Limerick / (061) 46231. J1-5 in blue biro centre.
Michael Cowhey (photographer)