Boston Post Office, Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. – Historic Print
(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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Boston Post Office, Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Boston Post Office, Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.
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This view of the Boston Post Office on Post Office Square is dated 1906 in its record, and the catalog describes it as a picture postcard, a format that made city buildings like this one widely circulated among visitors and residents. The post office and federal offices occupied a large granite block that anchored the square and served as the city's principal mail facility. Postcards of civic buildings from this period often show the street life and streetcar traffic around them, which makes such images useful for seeing how downtown Boston looked in the early 1900s.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1906 |
| Subjects | Color postcard. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Post offices; Massachusetts--Boston--Buildings; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 986 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133969 |
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