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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. – Historic Reproduction

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, appears here in a glass negative dating from roughly 1900 to 1910, a period when the museum was growing quickly and its collections were outpacing its quarters. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this view, sold large numbers of photographs of American cities, landmarks and public buildings, and its images give a useful record of how civic institutions looked before the mid-century. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071459. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsGalleries & museums.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 770 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72798

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