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The Central Artery highway, with downtown Boston (left) and the waterfront (right). The highway effectively divides this section of the city.
Tags: chr_1971, geo_Boston, thm_CentralArtery, thm_highway
"Pictorial maps, with extensive index on verso, including listing some 38 theaters (which are numbered on the map). Shows streets, parks, city blocks, Rapid Transit Lines, Surface and Underground Trolley Lines and Bus Routes, city landmarks,…
Tags: 1930, Boston, Central Boston, Fenway, Map, Transportation
The overlap of the Boston city tour bus with the Charles Street Meeting House, the home of a long segregationist tradition of church seating and the struggle against it, provides a snapshot of the different temporal layers that intersect in Beacon…
This beautiful fountain offers a natural element to the urban environment around the Chinatown Park.
Tags: chr_2016, geo_Boston, thm_polarity, thm_serenity
This beautiful fountain offers a natural element to the urban environment around the Chinatown Park.
Tags: chr_2016, geo_Boston, thm_polarity, thm_serenity
The Church of the Covenant around the corner from Emmanuel Church. The churches were built 5 years apart and both are partially built by Tiffany & Co but do not compete because they serve different sects of christianity.
This photograph illustrates the many ways people interact with the ducklings sculptures—ignoring them, playing on them, and taking pictures of them
Tags: Boston, Boston Public Garden, Ducklings
On lampposts around Chinatown Park are the flags of China and the United States of America, representative of how cultural forces of both nations have shaped the area.
Tags: chr_2016, geo_Boston, thm_culture









