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[Tremont Street, mall, Boston, Mass.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Tremont Street, mall, Boston, Mass.], [1904?] — historic photograph
[Tremont Street, mall, Boston, Mass.], [1904?]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Tremont Street, mall, Boston, Mass.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Tremont Street runs along the edge of Boston Common, and this view captures the tree-lined mall that ran beside the park, where pedestrians could stroll out of the city's commercial bustle and into open ground. The Common, dating to 1634, is generally regarded as the oldest public park in the United States, and by the early 1900s its borders were lined with shops, offices, and streetcar traffic. The picture was made as a glass dry-plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American towns and streets around the turn of the twentieth century.

Created / published[1904?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. At edge of Boston Common. 1664 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033300. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66591

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