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Caption:
Robinson Memorial
Stoughton Street & Harrison Avenue
Boston, Mass.

Reference:
The building where Plath was born.

Now a part of the Boston University Medical Center.


Caption:
24 Prince Street
Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Reference:
Plath's first home.


Caption:
Aerial view of Winthrop.


Reference:
Winthrop is a peninsula east of Boston.



Caption:
92 Johnson Avenue
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
Plath's home from 1936-1942.


Caption:
The beach behind
92 Johnson Avenue.

Reference:
Plath played here as a child.


Caption:
View of Point Shirley from a plane.

Reference:
Visible are the Water Tower and a portion of Deer Island.


Caption:
892 Shirley Street,
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
The house of Francis and Aurelia Schober.


Caption:
892 Shirley Street,
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Point Shirley" for a description of these stones.


Caption:
Yirrel Beach
on the Atlantic Ocean.

Reference:
The beach behind the house at 892 Shirely Street.


Caption:
Deer Island.

Reference:
Former prison site. Plath wrote about Deer Island in The Bell Jar.


Caption:
Winthrop Landing.

Reference:
On the bay side of Winthrop.


Caption:
Water Tower Hill

Reference:
Read Plath's poem "Point Shirley" and Chapter 12 of The Bell Jar.


Caption:
Sunshine School
77 Bartlett Road
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
Plath attended pre-school here starting in 1937.


Caption:
E. B. Newton School
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
Plath attended from 1940 to 1942.


Caption:
Methodist Church
Winthrop, Mass.

Reference:
In the town center.
Location of Otto Plath's funeral.


Caption:
Winthrop Cemetery.

Reference:
See Plath's Journals, page 473, Chapter 12 of The Bell Jar, and the poem "Electra on Azelea Path".


Caption:
Winthrop Cemetery.

Reference:
See Plath's Journals, page 473, Chapter 12 of The Bell Jar, and the poem "Electra on Azelea Path".


Caption:
Otto Plath's grave marker.

Reference:
See Plath's Journals, page 473 and Chapter 12 of The Bell Jar.


Caption:
Azalea Path
Winthrop Cemetery.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Electra on Azelea Path", as well as the Journals, page 473, and Chapter 12 of The Bell Jar.

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