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School Street, Boston, Mass. – Historic Photo Reproduction

School Street, Boston, Mass., [1906?] — historic photograph
School Street, Boston, Mass., [1906?]. 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: School Street, Boston, Mass., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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School Street, Boston, Mass.

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School Street, which runs from Washington Street to Tremont Street near the old center of Boston, appears here alongside the Parker House, the hotel named in the catalog title for this view. The Parker House opened in 1855 at the corner of School and Tremont Streets and became a well-known gathering place for writers and politicians. It is also credited with the Boston cream pie. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country to document American cities and towns in the early 1900s, made this pair of close glass negatives around 1906, a busy downtown street of that period.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle in Detroit, Catalogue P (1906): School Street and Parker House, Boston, Mass. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Negatives are close variants. 3261 B" on A negative; "3261 A" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019608. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Hotels.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan808 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62959

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