Subway entrance, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.

Item Information

Title:
Subway entrance, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
Description:
Trolley cars emerge and descend at the Public Garden portal completed in 1895. The trolley car on the left is travelling to Arsenal Watertown. The back of the one on the right reads Union Square, subway to Park Street. There is an African-American man in the pedestrian group on the right. The statue on the left is the Charles Sumner memorial.
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC001: General photographic collection
Subjects:
public transit (infrastructure)
trolley cars
pedestrians
public gardens
parks (public recreation areas)
statues
memorials (monuments)
legislators
senators
abolitionists
Public Garden (Boston, Mass.)
African Americans
Antislavery movements
Architectural photography
Boylston Street (Boston, Mass.)
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 photographic print : black-and-white
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/197546
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Identifier:
197546
Call #:
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0030.001