Tremont St. subway - June 17, 1896 – 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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Tremont St. subway - June 17, 1896 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tremont St. subway - June 17, 1896
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Boston's Tremont Street subway, shown here in construction during June 1896, was the first subway built in the United States. The city dug a trench beneath Tremont Street near Boston Common so streetcars could run out of sight of the street traffic above, and the line opened in September 1897. This print carries a later date, about 1936, and a copyright notice in the name of E.B. Dennison of Medford, Massachusetts, so it is probably a reproduction of the 1896 view. The work shows the open cut and the crude engineering of a project that changed how Boston moved its traffic.
| Created / published | 1896, c1936. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | J19020 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.B. Dennison, Medford, Mass. |
| Subjects | Subways--Massachusetts--Boston--1890-1900. Construction--Massachusetts--Boston--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,465 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218567 |
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