/ Park with benches, trees, and pedestrians, Boston, 1914

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Title: Park with benches, trees, and pedestrians, Boston, 1914
Contributor: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection
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Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Park with benches, trees, and pedestrians. It may be Boston Common or the Public Garden. There are streetlamps throughout, as well as women walking with strollers.
Text from negative sleeve: 424. Eastern trip, 1914. Massachusetts. Boston and vicinity. 12 pictures of skaters on the ice in the ponds on the Common in Boston. One of these is the celebrated "Frog Pond" that the school boys used to skate no during the revolution, and General Gage's soldiers broke the ice so they could not skate, and a delegation of boys called on General Gage and complained and he stopped the breaking of the ice. 12 negatives.
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1998_000424_005
ark:/21198/zz002hqcwg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parks--Massachusetts--Boston
Source: West (H. H.) Collection

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