Golf links, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art
![Golf links, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass., c[1906?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1a/1a9ea30137fa-L.webp)
(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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Golf links, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.
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Golf links at Franklin Park in southern Boston show the game spreading onto public land around the turn of the twentieth century. Frederick Law Olmsted's firm laid out the park in the 1880s as the largest piece of Boston's connected park system, and its open fields gave golfers room that the city's crowded streets did not. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, produced views of American towns, parks and recreation spots for travelers and postcard buyers, and this one is catalogued around 1906. The rolling, open landscape in the frame reflects Olmsted's preference for scenery that looked natural.
| Created / published | c[1906?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 3103" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018911. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Golf. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62382 |
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