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Photograph of the broken keyboard of a piano shared with the community outside the Hatch Memorial Shell

Photograph of the broken keyboard of a piano shared with the community outside the Hatch Memorial Shell

Close-up shot of one of the duckling sculptures in the Make Way for Ducklings statue

This is a 2016 aerial shot of Charles River Esplanade, which shows the esplanade as it is today. The Hatch Memorial Shell is central to the Esplanade. In comparison to the older aerial shots, we can see that the island extensions are more fully…

Two plaques are included with the statues; they honor Robert McCloskey for his children's book that the statue is based on and Nancy Schon for her creation of the sculptures

Map of the stops where the U.S.S. Constitution stopped during its "Thank You" tour in the 1930s.

This is a 1952 aerial shot of Charles River Esplanade, which shows the esplanade with a permanent, and larger shell: the Hatch Memorial Shell built in 1941, and the same oval we see in the 1938 aerial shot. Storrow Drive has been extended farther…

Copley Station entrance by the Boston Public Library

This is a 1938 aerial shot of Charles River Esplanade, which shows the esplanade with a temporary bandshell and oval. We can see that Storrow Drive did not extend very far in 1938, and is only reconstructed as a major freeway later on.

The states that contributed goods to the construction of the U.S.S. Constitution