Take a Walk Through History: Boston

Seems like everyone is releasing old photography collections on Flickr. Following on the Library of Congress heels comes the venerable Boston Public Library. Wish I had spent more time on it when I was there - also wish I had more than the one chance to eat there. 

Read: Lost Boston

The Boston Public Library released its much more intimate, if eclectic, collection on flickr. The photos, prints, and postcards it contains present a city that is both immensely altered and curiously unchanged from its 19th century self, providing the contemporary viewer the opportunity to reconsider just which "history" preserved Boston embodies today.

(via Urbanphoto…)

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