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Boylston Street and the Public Garden, showing subway entrance, Boston, Mass. – Historic Photo Reproduction

Boylston Street and the Public Garden, showing subway entrance, Boston, Mass., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Boylston Street and the Public Garden, showing subway entrance, Boston, Mass., [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Boylston Street and the Public Garden, showing subway entrance, Boston, Mass.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The subway entrance in this view sits at the edge of the Boston Public Garden on Boylston Street, where the city's underground line surfaced beside its oldest public park. Boston opened the first subway in the United States in 1897, and by the 1910s the system was expanding into new stations, including Boylston, which brought streetcar passengers under the busy avenue. The Public Garden, laid out in the 1830s, was among the first public botanical gardens in the country, so the scene pairs a 20th-century transit improvement with one of the city's oldest green spaces. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities and landscapes in these years.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 073356. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStreets. Parks. Subways.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan831 × 649 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74227

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