Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. – Vintage Print
(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 Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
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Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was already a busy crossroads of streetcar lines and foot traffic when this view was made around 1906. The scene centers on the plaza and the tracks that carried trolleys through it, a reminder of how much the square depended on rail transit in the early twentieth century. The photograph is a glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American towns and streets in the years before the First World War, and the company's catalog number is recorded on the plate. Its record also notes a later gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30578. 3324" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019642. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Plazas. Street railroads. Streets.United States--Massachusetts--Cambridge. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62993 |
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