c. 1860Boston
Washington Street, Boston
James Wallace Black.
Street photograph
c. 1860·Boston
Washington Street, Boston
James Wallace Black.
Street photograph · Replaced
What this plate shows
A street photograph from a slightly elevated point. Washington Street, Boston, about 1860: bookshops, a lithographer’s sign, the Boston Journal’s arched front, a wagon, an arched mount. Masonry and cast-iron commercial blocks. Not a bird’s-eye lithograph of the city.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Region
- North America
- Present status
- Replaced — The commercial fronts in the picture — including the Boston Journal — are not the present street. This plate does not by itself assign the 1872 fire to these addresses.
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, DP243004 (CC0). Catalog date circa 1860. Scale of that scan.
- License
- CC0 1.0.