Postcard of Cambridge, Back Bay and The Fenway

Description

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Bound album of postcards labeled on cover Cambridge, Back Bay and The Fenway.
223 colored and black and white postcards dating from 1905-1917, many written with postmarks and some with dealer prices.

Covers Boston and Cambridge locations, mostly labeled. Cambridge views include MIT, Harvard University, Central Square, Harvard Square, Harvard Stadium, Robert Lowell House, Charles River boathouses.

Back Bay cards include street views, Public Garden, landmarks and churches including Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library. Hotels - Ritz-Carlton, Hotel Vendome, Hotel Brunswick, Copley Plaza, including some unlabeled modern day snapshots which could be the Copley Plaza. Hotel dining rooms - The Georgian and Hotel Lenox. Back Bay street views of Commonwealth Avenue with the statues on the mall. Also Christian Science church, Symphony Hall and other landmarks along Huntington Avenue. The Fenway includes Simmons College, Mrs. Gardner's Palace, and the Museum of Fine Arts, and the hospitals. Other locations include Coolidge Corner, Brookline, Brighton, Franklin Park, Dorchester, Roxbury, and South Boston. Beach scenes from Revere Beach, Winthrop Beach, and Nantasket Beach. Outside of Boston are a few cards from Marblehead, Salem and The Samoset in Rockland Maine.