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Bird's-eye view of T Wharf, Boston, Mass. – Historic Map Reproduction

Bird's-eye view of T Wharf, Boston, Mass., c1901. — historic photograph
Bird's-eye view of T Wharf, Boston, Mass., c1901.. Historic photograph from the Boston National Historic Park 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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Step back in time with Bird's-eye view of T Wharf, Boston, Mass., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bird's-eye view of T Wharf, Boston, Mass.

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From an elevated vantage point, this view of T Wharf shows a working section of Boston's waterfront, where fishing and shipping crowded the piers along the harbor. It survives as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, a popular parlor entertainment around 1901. The card was copyrighted by B.L. Singley and issued by the Keystone View Company, a major American publisher of such views. Its caption notes fishing and wharves, which makes it useful for seeing how the harbor's commercial life was arranged at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 11681. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Boston--Waterfront; Photog. I; Fishing (Industry); Wharves; Mass.--B---Views--ca. 1901; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,692 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137576

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