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Bathing at City Point, South Boston, Mass. – Historic Reproduction

Bathing at City Point, South Boston, Mass., c1906. — historic photograph
Bathing at City Point, South Boston, Mass., c1906.. 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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Bathers crowd the shoreline at City Point, the rocky peninsula at the southern edge of South Boston, in this view made around 1906. City Point's public beaches drew large summer crowds from the crowded tenements of the city, and by the early 1900s the area was a popular place for families to swim and spend a day by the water. The picture is a glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large-format views of American towns, resorts and landscapes, and it shows how Boston's working-class residents used the harbor for leisure.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3378" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019637. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62988

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