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Swan boats, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass. – Historic Print

Swan boats, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Swan boats, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 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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Swan boats, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass.

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Swan boats, the pedal-powered craft shaped like swans that glide across the lagoon in Boston's Public Garden, are the subject here. Robert Paget introduced them in 1877, and they remain one of the city's best-loved attractions. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely around 1900 recording American towns, parks and scenery. The garden itself dates to 1837 and was one of the first public gardens in the country, so the picture captures a place that drew crowds well before the photograph was made.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3279" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019634. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBoats. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62985

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