Photograph
Brattle Street
Boston · 18 August 1855
Original archival photograph
The surviving historical source image.
What the picture shows
A dense brick street, the roadway, and a church tower. Carriages are in the street.
Documented context
An 1850s camera record of street grade and masonry, not a bird’s-eye drawing of Boston.
- Photographer
- Southworth & Hawes
- Source
- Daguerreotype. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, via Wikimedia Commons. The funeral of Abbott Lawrence.
- License
- Public domain.
SCARCE connections
A link is a place to compare. It does not move this picture onto that record.