A row of perhaps fifteen men — workers, tradesmen, and at least one figure in a white apron who may be a cook or butcher — stand posed along the ground-floor shopfront of the Paul Revere House in Boston's North End, one of the oldest surviving wooden structures in the city and the home from which Revere set out on his midnight ride of April 18, 1775; the colorized lithograph reveals the building in its pre-restoration state, when it still housed commercial tenants at street level, a condition that would be corrected when the Paul Revere Memorial Association acquired it in 1908 and began restoring it to its colonial appearance. The crowd of men posing for the photographer gives this card exceptional human-interest value — their faces, hats, and work clothes are a vivid slice of early-twentieth-century North End life, the neighborhood then transforming from Irish to Italian immigrant community. A message is written across the image itself: "It was put back with the rest of mine. I have not got any ink yet. My trunk has come. From C.P.G." The card was sent in September 1907 to Mrs. Fred P. Greenwood at 23 [Ferry?] St., Everett, Mass., postmarked North Scituate, Rhode Island.