[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts] – Antique Print
![[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts], c1897. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f14dbfd1941c-L.webp)
(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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[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Electric streetcars crowd the streets beside Boston Common, the city's oldest public park, in this view from around 1897. Boston had converted much of its horse-drawn street railway to electric traction in the early 1890s, and the trolley network that grew from that change made the downtown edge of the Common one of the busiest transfer points in the city. The photograph was registered for copyright around the same time, which is why the Library of Congress dates it to the late 1890s and files it among its prints from that decade. Look closely at the overhead wires and the tracks, which show how the new electric system reshaped the street.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 18509 or 18510 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Street railroads--Massachusetts--Boston--1890-1900. Electric railroads--Massachusetts--Boston--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182671 |
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