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[Yacht club houses, City Point, Boston, Mass.] – Historic Print

[Yacht club houses, City Point, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Yacht club houses, City Point, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Yacht club houses, City Point, Boston, Mass.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Yacht club houses and their wharves on the waterfront at City Point, in South Boston, are the focus of this view. City Point juts into Boston Harbor, and by the early 1900s its shoreline held sailing clubs and the piers that served their boats. The picture is an 8 x 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American towns, harbors and industry for travel and commercial sale in the years around 1900. Large glass plates like this one recorded fine detail, which makes the buildings and waterfront structures easy to study today.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034385. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsYacht clubs. Clubhouses. Piers & wharves.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67343

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