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Historic Photos of Boston captures Beantown's"" past through photographs from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War period, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Boston follows life, government, education, and events from its extensive history. This book captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of about 200 historic photographs. Published in striking black and white photography, these images communicate historic events and every day life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 décembre 2006
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618586056
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	54 Mo

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HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
BOSTON
T EXT AND C APTIONS BY T IMOTHY O RWIG
In 1911, people gather in front of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square to inaugurate Lemeuel Murlin as the new president of Boston University. Boston University was established in 1869 with a mission to educate students without regard to race, sex, or creed. It began on Beacon Hill before moving to quarters next to the library.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
BOSTON
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Historic Photos of Boston
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This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933653
ISBN-10: 1-59652-305-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-59652-305-0
Printed in the United States of America
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C ONTENTS
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
P REFACE
N INETEENTH-CENTURY B OSTON (1850-1899)
B OSTON IN THE N EW C ENTURY (1900-1919)
B OSTON B ETWEEN THE W ARS (1920-1939)
W AR , R ECOVERY, AND B OSTON AT A C ROSSROADS (1940-1960 S )
N OTES ON THE P HOTOGRAPHS
The Boston and Lowell Railroad Station on Causeway Street, shown here upon its completion in 1871, was a grand French Renaissance structure. Designed by Levi Newcomb and Son, its concourse was paneled with oak and floored in marble. It was demolished in 1927.
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume, Historic Photos of Boston , is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the following for their generous support:
Boston Public Library
City of Boston Archives
We would also like to thank the following individuals for their valuable contributions and assistance in making this work possible:
Roger Reed
Aaron Schmidt, Boston Public Library Print Department Kristen Swett, City of Boston Archives
P REFACE
Boston has thousands of historic photographs that reside in archives, both locally and nationally. This book began with the observation that, while those photographs are of great interest to many, they are not easily accessible. During a time when Boston is looking ahead and evaluating its future course, many people are asking, How do we treat the past? These decisions affect every aspect of the city-architecture, public spaces, commerce, infrastructure-and these, in turn, affect the way that people live their lives. This book seeks to provide easy access to a valuable, objective look into the history of Boston.
The power of photographs is that they are less subjective than words in their treatment of history. Although the photographer can make decisions regarding subject matter and how to capture and present it, photographs do not provide the breadth of interpretation that text does. For this reason, they offer an original, untainted perspective that allows the viewer to interpret and observe.
This project represents countless hours of review and research. The researchers and writer have reviewed thousands of photographs in numerous archives. We greatly appreciate the generous assistance of the individuals and organizations listed in the acknowledgments of this work, without whom this project could not have been completed.
The goal in publishing this work is to provide broader access to this set of extraordinary photographs that seek to inspire, provide perspective, and evoke insight that might assist people who are responsible for determining Boston s future. In addition, the book seeks to preserve the past with adequate respect and reverence.
With the exception of touching up imperfections that have accrued with the passage of time and cropping where necessary, no other changes have been made. The focus and clarity of many images is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.
The work is divided into eras. Beginning with some of the earliest known photographs of Boston, the first section records photographs from before the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. The second section spans the beginning of the twentieth century up to the start of Prohibition. Section Three moves from the twenties to the close of the Great Depression era. The last section covers the forties and beyond, from the World War II era up to the recent past.
In each of these sections we have made an effort to capture various aspects of life through our selection of photographs. People, commerce, transportation, infrastructure, religious institutions, and educational institutions have been included to provide a broad perspective.
We encourage readers to reflect as they go walking in Boston, strolling through the city, its parks, and its neighborhoods. It is the publisher s hope that in utilizing this work, longtime residents will learn something new and that new residents will gain a perspective on where Boston has been, so that each can contribute to its future.
-Todd Bottorff, Publisher

The Boston and Providence Railroad Station opened in Park Square in 1872. Designed by Peabody and Stearns, it was the world s longest station at 850 feet. Abandoned after South Station opened in 1900, the station was eventually replaced with the Statler Building (Park Plaza Hotel).
N INETEENTH-CENTURY B OSTON
(1850-1899)
By the time photography was introduced to Boston in 1840, the city was already more than two centuries old. Governor John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans had settled on the Shawmut peninsula in 1630, naming it Boston after a city in Lincolnshire, England. Winthrop s City on a Hill soon became the largest, wealthiest, and most influential settlement in the English colonies in America. Among its many innovations, Boston established the first public school (1635, Boston Latin) and college (1636, Harvard) in the colonies. The revolution which ended British rule began largely in Boston, with the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere s ride, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
With the formation of the United States, Boston continued to grow and shape American culture. Its importance as a maritime trading power continued, while Boston also became a center for textile production, water-powered manufacturing, banking, and finance. Boston s elite hereditary class, dubbed Brahmins by Oliver Wendell Holmes, used its wealth to erect innovative buildings designed by Charles Bulfinch and Alexander Parris, to found private and public libraries, and to support the arts and education. A literary renaissance grew in Boston, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and driven by Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and John Greenleaf Whittier. This intellectual climate made Boston a center for many reform movements, including free public education, education of the blind, humane treatment of the mentally ill, women s rights, and the abolition of slavery.
The Boston shown in the earliest photographs here, on the eve of the Civil War, was undergoing tremendous growth and change. Early in the eighteenth century, Bostonians had begun cutting down their hills to build wharves out into the harbor. By the early nineteenth century, whole neighborhoods were built atop former bays, most prominently the South End from the 1850s on, and the Back Bay from the 1860s. Fires swept the city periodically, culminating in the 1872 fire which leveled much of the business district. Boston expanded by annexing neighboring towns, including Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, Roxbury, and West Roxbury, all in the decade after the Civil War. Linked to Boston by streetcars, these and other neighboring towns made Boston a metropolis by 1900.
These physical changes in the city were driven by population growth. A large town of 18,320 in 1790, by 1890 Boston had grown to a city of nearly half a million people. As the Brahmins established strongholds on Beacon Hill and later the Back Bay, Irish immigrants arrived in increasing numbers (37,000 in 1847 alone) and reshaped Boston s other neighborhoods. Drawn by the promise of a new life, they literally did the heavy lifting that built Boston. In their footsteps came countless other immigrants, including Germans, French Canadians, Italians, Asians, Greeks, Poles, and Jews from Lithuania and Russia. By the time Boston opened the first American subway in 1897, it was a diverse, world-class city.

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross, on Franklin Street, was designed by architect Charles Bulfinch and built 1800-1803. Bulfinch drew up the plans as a gift for his friend Bishop John Cheverus, and President John Adams and others subscribed to build Boston s first Roman Catholic cathedral. This view dates to ca. 1850. The building was demolished in 1862.

This photograph from ca. 1855 shows the Marine and Eagle (at right) hotels. They stood at the corner of Lewis and Fulton streets in the North End, near Lewis Wharf, convenient to sailors and travelers.

On September 17, 1856, spectators crowd the ledges and rooftops on Court Street for a parade inaugurating the statue of Benjamin Franklin. Sculptor Richard Greenough s monument to Boston s favorite son stands in front of Old City Hall on neighboring School Street.

India and Central wharves are shown in 1857 crowded with ships. They were built out into the harbor between 1803 and 1816. The New England Aquarium was built on Central Wharf in 1969.

The National Theatre began in 1831 in a building on Traverse Street, in the Bulfinch Triangle. The building was destroyed by fire. This 1860 image shows its Italianate-style replacement, fronting on Portland Street, which opened in 1852.

The Federal Street Church (1809) was Charles Bulfinch s only Boston attempt at Gothic Revival. By 1859, the year the c