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[Exterior view of the Boston Museum with shops on the street level, Boston, Massachusetts] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Exterior view of the Boston Museum with shops on the street level, Boston, Massachusetts], c1903 [May 7th] — historic photograph
[Exterior view of the Boston Museum with shops on the street level, Boston, Massachusetts], c1903 [May 7th]. Historic photograph from the Boston National Historic Park 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 view captures the Boston Museum on a May day around 1903, the year the institution closed. Despite its name, the building was best known as a theater on Tremont Street, where a resident stock company staged plays for decades. The name dated from an earlier museum of curiosities that occupied the site before the theater took over. The street-level shops show how the ground floor of a downtown Boston playhouse was rented out to merchants, a common arrangement in busy commercial districts of the period.

Created / publishedc1903 [May 7th]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH31585 U.S. Copyright Office. Title devised by Library staff.
SubjectsBoston Museum (1847-1903) Galleries & museums--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. Stores & shops--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,087 × 4,135 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-208240

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