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Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts – Vintage Photo Print

Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1939 — historic photograph
Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1939. 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: Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

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The lead subject here is the surgical operating and ward building at Boston City Hospital, a large public hospital complex whose construction in the 1930s was supported by federal Public Works Administration funds. The photograph was published in a 1939 PWA survey of completed projects, a federal effort to document the architecture produced by New Deal public works spending across the country. Boston City Hospital, which had served the city's poor and working residents since the nineteenth century, was one of many older civic institutions modernized during the Depression. The building's functional, masonry design reflects the period's emphasis on efficient, sanitary hospital planning.

Created / published1939
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreBook illustrations 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesIllus. in: Survey of the architecture of completed projects of the Public Works Administration / C.W. Short, Public Works Administration [and] R. Stanley-Brown, Procurement Division ; Committee on Architectural Surveys.... [Washington : s.n.], 1939, v. 7, p. 01285.
SubjectsBoston City Hospital--Buildings--1930-1940. Hospitals--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,301 × 4,253 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213834

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