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Scene in Public Gardens, Boston, Mass. – Antique Print

Scene in Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1929. — historic photograph
Scene in Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1929.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Scene in Public Gardens, Boston, Mass. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Scene in Public Gardens, Boston, Mass.

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The Public Garden in Boston, one of the oldest public gardens in the United States, is the setting here, with its lake and footbridge carrying the view across the water. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued this scene on a stereo card around 1929, when stereographs were a popular way to bring distant places into American parlors. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two slightly offset images gave the lake and bridge a sense of depth. The Public Garden was laid out in the 1860s on reclaimed land, and its swan boats on the pond became a well-loved feature for generations of visitors.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1929.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreLandscape photographs 1920-1930.Stereographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJO3128 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32156. Copyright by Keystone View Company.
SubjectsLakes & ponds--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Pedestrian bridges--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Public Garden (Boston, Mass.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 731 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163876

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