Snapshots of the Past

Twentieth Century Boston – Antique Wall Art

Twentieth Century Boston — historic image
Twentieth Century Boston. Historic image from the Boston collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Twentieth Century Boston comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Twentieth Century Boston

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Rather than a single street or landmark, this color print takes all of Boston across the twentieth century as its subject. Over those hundred years the city moved from a economy built on shipping and textile mills toward medicine, higher education, and finance. Boston absorbed waves of immigration, and its mid-century urban renewal projects, including the demolition of the West End, reshaped whole neighborhoods. Civic color views like this one often showed how a city wanted to be seen by its residents and visitors.

Original scan9,136 × 6,864 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi
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