Fourteen Original Photographs of Boston: 1880-1890

Each photograph is approximately 8 x 5 1/2” and mounted (one on each side) on boards; almost certainly originally bound into an album (the left edge is strengthened with cloth, with holes top and bottom). As follows: “Public Garden Bridge” (captioned in the photograph), showing the suspension bridge, swanboats, rowboats and various people; [verso] “Washington Statue, Public Garden” (captioned in the photo); a few people are walking nearby and Washington still held his sword, the original which is now long stolen; “Cactus Bed, Boston Public Garden, 1887” (captioned in pencil); [verso] “The Pond, Boston Public Garden” (captioned in pencil), showing a rowboat and a swanboat rounding the small island made famous in Make Way for Ducklings; “The Maid of the Mist and Washington Monument, Boston Public Garden” (captioned in pencil), showing the Washington statue with the fountain in the foreground; [verso] “Masonic Temple, Boylston and Tremont, Boston, 1880” (captioned in pencil and pen), a building replaced long ago at the same location by a newer Masonic building; “Public Garden Bridge” (captioned in the photograph), taken from the bridge approach, men and women strolling, rowboats and swanboats below; [verso] “Boating on the Public Garden” (captioned in the photograph), showing three swanboats and two rowboats; “In the Fenway, Boston” (captioned in pencil) “Doggie’s Bath” (captioned in the photograph); [verso] “In The Fenway, Boston, Mass.” (captioned in pencil), “Making a New Street” (captioned in the photograph), showing horses and wagons involved in filling in the Fens; “Everett Monument, Boston Public Garden, 1890” (captioned in ink), houses along Beacon Street are in the background; “Memorial Arch on Washington Street, Boston, in honor of the G.A.R. convention and Parade, August, 1890” (captioned in ink), a horse drawn streetcar passes under the arch, grandstand in the background, women with parasols on the street; “Museum of Fine Arts”) captioned in the photograph), depicting the original Gothic Revival building that stood in Copley Square; [verso] “Mill Pond, South Braintree - Wm. L. Balch, Photo., 1889” (printed label), a bucolic scene in the nearby town, originally home of two U.S. Presidents and the location of the factory held up in the infamous Sacco-Vanzetti case. The photographs are in excellent condition.