City anglers say there's a 50-pound salmon in Boston's Jamaica Pond. (News item)"" – Historic Print
(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 drawing captures City anglers say there's a 50-pound salmon in Boston's Jamaica Pond. (News item)"" in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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City anglers say there's a 50-pound salmon in Boston's Jamaica Pond. (News item)""
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A newspaper item headline claimed that anglers in Boston had spotted a 50-pound salmon in Jamaica Pond, a glacial kettle pond in Jamaica Plain set within the city's Olmsted-designed park system. The drawing, rendered in India ink over pencil with white highlights, was published in May 1940 and pairs the rumor with the tourist trade that gathered around the pond's shoreline. Its subjects point to a moment when a sensational fish story could draw crowds to a local park. The piece is a useful reminder of how urban waterways were promoted as recreation, sometimes with more enthusiasm than evidence.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with opaque white on bristol board ; 27.0 x 40.3 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | 1940 May 27 [publication date] |
| Subjects | Fishing--Massachusetts--Boston--1940. Tourist trade--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,039 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156095 |
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