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Bird's-eye view of waterfront, Boston, Mass. – Antique Wall Map

Bird's-eye view of waterfront, Boston, Mass., c1906. — historic photograph
Bird's-eye view of waterfront, Boston, Mass., c1906.. 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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A window into the past: Bird's-eye view of waterfront, Boston, Mass., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bird's-eye view of waterfront, Boston, Mass.

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Boston's waterfront in about 1906 looks busy in this bird's-eye view, with piers, wharves and at least one side-wheel steamer crowding the harbor edge. Photographs like this were often issued by the Detroit Publishing Company, which copyrighted and sold views of American cities and landscapes in the early 1900s. By then Boston's wharves were still central to the city's shipping and passenger trade, before rail and later road traffic shifted much of that work elsewhere. The picture is worth studying for its record of how the working harbor was laid out before those changes.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH84741 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 019604. No. Photograph copyrighted by the Detroit Publishing Co. Title from item.
SubjectsBoston (Mass.)--1900-1910. Piers & wharves--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. Ships--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. Side wheelers--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,541 × 4,401 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif09012_BirdseyeviewofwaterfrontBoston

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