ca. 1883
Special Photographs: Geographic / Mass. / Boston / Public Garden / Large - Special Photos - Massachusetts - Boston - Public Garden
GUSN-196173
A woman and man take a swan boat ride on the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden. The plan for the Public Garden by George F. Meacham included a pond. The four-acre lagoon was completed in 1861. Architect William Gibbons Preston designed the suspension footbridge, which was finished in 1867. Rowhouses on Boylston Street and Arlington Street and the Ether Monument, which commemorates the first successful public use of ether by William Thomas Green Morton in the operating theatre of the Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846, can be seen in the background.
row houses
historic monuments
public gardens
lagoons (bodies of water)
public sculpture
outdoor sculpture
leisure
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 001202
AccessID 1602
Other identifier HNEDID-001202
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.03.TMP.048
Back Bay (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Arlington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Beacon Street (Boston, Mass.)
Ether Monument (Boston, Mass.)
outdoor recreation
Public Garden (Boston, Mass.)
swan boats
Item
Special Photographs: Geographic / Mass. / Boston / Public Garden / Large - Special Photos - Massachusetts - Boston - Public Garden
Friends of the Public Garden. The Public Garden Boston, 25-26.
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