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[Lake, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Lake, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Lake, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Lake, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Lake, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.]

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The water in this view is the lagoon at the heart of the Boston Public Garden, which the catalog record calls a lake. The park opened in 1837 as one of the first public botanic gardens in the United States, and its winding paths and footbridges were built around that pond, where swan boats began carrying riders in 1877. The negative is a dry plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities and scenery in the years around 1900. It reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 3363" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034387. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Lakes & ponds.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67345

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