45
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(BOSTON)
Album with 63 cyanotypes depicting gardens, parks, and the harbor in greater Boston, including Olmsted
Park, Marine Park, Franklin Park, and Arnold Arboretum; primarily summery bucolic landscapes with
lakes, stately trees, sheep, architecture, river ways, and sailboats in the harbor, but also including a few
winter scenes and 6 images with crowds of well-dressed visitors enjoying the lawns and a beach
(including tennis nets, a gymnasium, and children at the edge of the ocean). Cyanotypes, sizes ranging
from 3
1
/
4
x4
3
/
8
to 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
4
inches (8.3x11.1 to 19.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse; many prints with a
stamped number in the upper or lower right corner, and each with the same number and a descriptive
caption as well as many with a date, in ink, on the mounts below the image; many leaves detached as
well as pages where the images have been removed; includes 3 unmounted prints. Oblong 4to, gilt-
lettered leather, cover detached and spine perished. 1900-1905
[3,000/4,500]
