Library in Franklin Park, Boston, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Library in Franklin Park, Boston, Mass., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Library in Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.
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The building in this view stands within Franklin Park, the largest of Boston's parks in the Emerald Necklace, a chain of green spaces linked by Frederick Law Olmsted and his firm. The park was laid out in the 1880s on land in Roxbury and Dorchester, and by about 1906 it was a popular place for city residents to spend leisure time. The picture was made as a large glass plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American towns, parks and landscapes for travel publications in the early 1900s. Its careful framing gives a sense of how civic buildings were set within the park's landscape during that period.
| 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-30443. 3101" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018909. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Libraries. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62380 |
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