Boston from the air – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Boston from the air, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Boston from the air
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Few views of Boston from the mid-1940s capture the city as a whole the way this aerial scene does, with its dense street grid and the harbor set against the built-up peninsula. Taken on July 16, 1946, it belongs to a wave of aerial photography that flourished in the years after World War II, when airplanes gave photographers a bird's-eye view of American cities that ground-level pictures could not match. The record places it among the Library of Congress's aerial photographs from the 1940s, and the Copyright Office notes suggest it was registered for protection as a published work. Looking closely, viewers can trace how the old colonial street pattern, the rail lines, and the waterfront shaped the city's layout in that period.
| Created / published | 1946 July 16. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1940-1950. |
| Notes | J1059 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Boston (Mass.)--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,176 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169808 |
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