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A map circa 1874, the Orpheum Theater(formally Boston Music Hall) is shown to be highly constricted by the urban landscape surrounding it.

A map circa 1874, the Orpheum Theater(formally Boston Music Hall) is shown to be highly constricted by the urban landscape surrounding it.

An antique photograph of the back entrance of the Orpheum Theatre (formally known as the Boston Music Hall).

The originally intended front entrance of the Orpheum Theatre. This street facing entrance has since been replaced by a retail company.

Nationally famous, the Boston Music Hall organ was the defining musical instrument of the hall and was the largest in the United States in its time.

This roster shows the diversity of immigrants that registered in a class that offered a variety of services to immigrant families settling in the West End. The 1940s saw a continuation of immigrant families moving from Europe to the West End.