1895
GUSN-194092
This album consists of approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch prints of Boston Common; fences and gates of the Boston Public Garden; fences of the Common along Boylston Street; the Park Square entrance to Common, as standing and in course of removal; birds-eye views of the Public Garden; work on the Boylston Street mall of the Common, with views of buildings on blocks not well documented elsewhere in Historic New England's collections; a trench on the Boylston Street mall; a trench in Public Garden; trees on Boston Common (possibly slated for removal); and the Tremont Street fences.
subways
historic buildings
public gardens
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 18-2
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1974
PC009.018-2
Library & Archives Purchase
Purchase, 1974.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Boston Transit Authority
Boston Common
Boston Public Garden
Boylston Street, Boston
Boston Transit Authority
Item
These albums, together with a large number of loose photographs, were purchased by Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities or SPNEA) in 1974. They appear to have been office copies maintained by the Boston Transit Authority (now the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority or MBTA). The Library of the MBTA holds similar but not always identical photographs. These albums are part of a much larger collection of photographic material related to the construction of the Boston subway system, the first in the United States, which came to SPNEA in 1986. Please see individual album records for more detailed descriptions.
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