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South Terminal Station, Boston – Historic Print

South Terminal Station, Boston, c1899. — historic photograph
South Terminal Station, Boston, c1899.. 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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South Terminal Station, Boston

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South Terminal Station in Boston was a rail hub on the city's south side, and this c1899 view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American places for sale as postcards and prints. The company's large collection, now held by the Library of Congress, captures how railroad stations looked at the turn of the twentieth century, when rail travel was the main way people moved between cities. Because the caption card is old and unverified, the exact vantage point and the people pictured are best read from the image itself.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 011328 Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Detroit Co.--Shelf; Geogr.; RR--Station.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106594

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