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[Tennis courts, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.] – Vintage Print

[Tennis courts, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Tennis courts, Franklin Park, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Tennis courts, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Tennis courts, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.]

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Tennis courts laid out inside Franklin Park show how the city's largest public green space was being used for recreation in the early 1900s. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as the largest piece of Boston's Emerald Necklace of connected parkways, and by this period it was giving residents space for games as well as walks. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass negative, sold views of American towns and sites to travelers and publishers, so the picture also records how a Boston park looked to outside audiences of its day.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 3112" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034150. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTennis. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67242

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