Bostonian Society Now Features Photograph Collection of Boston Street Scenes

The Bostonian Society has put its library catalog online as well as a database of 3,000 photographs of Boston street scenes ca 1850-1980. The database is searchable from http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/ .

The photograph has a simple keyword search and a more advanced search. Searching for Thoreau found one result. Searching for Winter found 68 results. Results appear with a thumbnail, item number, and title.

Clicking on the picture itself will give you a larger version of the picture, but if you want details, click on the title. There you'll get a description of the picture, topics, and any notes.

Also at this site you may search the Society's online book catalog as well as the manuscript catalog. Be sure to review the "Before You Begin" document before getting into serious searching.

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