Geographic / Mass. / Boston / General
GUSN-197546
Trolley cars emerge and descend at the Public Garden portal completed in 1895. The trolley car on the left is travelling to Arsenal Watertown. The back of the one on the right reads Union Square, subway to Park Street. There is an African-American man in the pedestrian group on the right. The statue on the left is the Charles Sumner memorial.
public transit
trolley cars
pedestrians
public gardens
parks (recreation areas)
statues
memorials
legislators
senators
abolitionists
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
DigitalID 002406
AccessID 4353
Other identifier HNEDID-002406
1 photographic print : black-and-white
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0030.001
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Public Garden (Boston, Mass.)
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Architectural photography
Boylston Street (Boston, Mass.)
Item
Geographic / Mass. / Boston / General
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