Boston. The swan boats - Public Garden – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Boston. The swan boats - Public Garden, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Boston. The swan boats - Public Garden
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The swan boats on the lagoon in Boston's Public Garden are the particular focus of this stereograph, a paired-image card of the kind sold to Victorian parlors for viewing through a hand stereoscope. The Public Garden, laid out in the 1830s as the nation's first public botanic garden in an American city, became known for its lagoon, and the swan-shaped pedal boats that glided across it were a popular attraction from the 1870s onward. The card was issued under the copyright of George Barker, a Boston-area photographer who produced many views of the city's parks and streets for this market.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by George Barker. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Gardens; Boats...; Mass.--Boston--Parks & Gardens; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,339 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139827 |
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