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[Across the Common from Hotel Bellevue, Boston, Mass.] – Antique Wall Art

[Across the Common from Hotel Bellevue, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Across the Common from Hotel Bellevue, 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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A window into the past: [Across the Common from Hotel Bellevue, Boston, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Across the Common from Hotel Bellevue, Boston, Mass.]

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This view looks across the grass of Boston Common toward the Massachusetts State House at right, with the Beacon Street buildings filling the center of the frame. The Common, set aside in 1634, is the oldest public park in the United States, and the State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1798, has overlooked its northern edge ever since. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely around 1900 to 1910 documenting American cities and landmarks. It captures the district in the early years of the automobile, when Beacon Street was still lined with the same grand houses and hotels.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Massachusetts State House at right; Beacon Street buildings in center. 1672" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033299. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCapitols. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66590

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