Massachusetts - Boston - Back Bay

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1865-1885

Location Note

Boxes 4 and 8

GUSN

GUSN-285305

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Description

This file includes seven postcards, five photographs, and eighteen stereoviews. The images show the First Church, the First Baptist Church, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston YMCA building, Park Street Church, Emmanuel Church, Central Congregational Church, the Public Garden, the Coliseum from the National Peace Jubilee in 1869, the Hotel Vendome, Berkeley Street, the Boston and Providence Railroad Depot, the Old South Church, Pearl Street, Trinity Church, and the dredging of Back Bay Park.

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Descriptive Terms

churches (buildings)
art museums (buildings)
hotels (public accommodations)
railroad stations
public gardens
streetscapes
dredgers (watercraft)
stereographs
photographs
postcards

Physical Descrption

2 folders ; 18 stereoviews, 5 photographs, 7 postcards

Collection Code

MS042

Collection Name

Donald Grey collection on New England churches

Reference Code

MS042.06.0220

Places

Back Bay (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Material Type

stereographs
photographs
postcards

Other Organizations

Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.)
First Church (Boston, Mass.)
First Baptist Church (Boston, Mass.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Young Men's Christian Association
Emmanuel Church (Boston, Mass.)
Central Congregational Church (Boston, Mass.)
Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation
Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
Trinity Church (Boston, Mass.)

Descriptive Terms

World’s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival (1872 : Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

File

Location Note

Boxes 4 and 8

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