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[Boston, Mass. from Charlestown, Boston, Mass.] – Historic Print

[Boston, Mass. from Charlestown, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Boston, Mass. from Charlestown, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Boston, Mass. from Charlestown, Boston, Mass.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Boston, Mass. from Charlestown, Boston, Mass.]

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Taken from Charlestown, this wide view looks across the Charles River toward Boston, with bridges and riverside industrial works filling the scene. It survives as one of two glass negatives that once formed part of a three-part panorama, so the sweep of the river reads as a continuous landscape rather than a single frame. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced and sold views of American cities and landscapes in the early 1900s, aimed such images at a travel-minded public, and this panorama preserves the working waterfront that lined the river at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19113, 19112. Originally part of a three-part panorama; for close variant see negative D4-37111 L (1A-19106). 3317" on center negative; "3318" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037115. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsIndustrial facilities. Bridges. Rivers.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.United States--Massachusetts--Charles River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68491

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