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Tree-lined street with church steeple and horse carriages – Vintage Wall Art

Tree-lined street with church steeple and horse carriages — historic image
Tree-lined street with church steeple and horse carriages. Historic image from the Boston National Historic Park collection.

(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 image captures Tree-lined street with church steeple and horse carriages in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Tree-lined street with church steeple and horse carriages

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A church steeple rises above a tree-lined street where horse-drawn carriages still share the roadway, a reminder of how slowly Boston's streets changed in the early 1900s. Electric streetcars were already well established in the city, and automobiles were beginning to appear, but horses remained the main means of moving people and goods. Shaded avenues of elms and other trees were a point of civic pride, and they lined many residential and church neighborhoods. The scene shows a city in transition, with older street life and newer technology existing side by side.

Original scan1,301 × 971 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
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