These amazing aerial photographs from the Boston Pictorial Archive documenting Boston’s landscape and city sections in the 1920s.
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Allston and Brighton, Boston |
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Back Bay and West End, Boston |
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Back Bay, looking west from Public Garden, Boston |
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Beacon Hill and North End, Boston |
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Beacon Hill and West End |
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Boston and Albany freight yards |
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Boston and Albany piers |
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Boston art museum |
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Boston common and State House |
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Boston Elevated Railroad |
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Boston Elevated Railroad |
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Boston from Kendall Square |
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Boston from South Terminal Station |
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Brookline, Boston |
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Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Boston |
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Business district in Boston |
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Business district in Boston |
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Business from the harbor |
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Cambridge, Boston |
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Castle Island |
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Chelsea and Revere, Boston |
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Christian Science Church and publishing house, Boston |
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Commonwealth Avenue, Boston |
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Copley Square and business district in Boston |
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Corey Hill, Brookline, Boston |
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Dorchester and Franklin Field, Boston |
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Dorchester, Boston |
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Dorchester, Boston |
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East Boston airport |
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East Boston and Charlestown |
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East Boston |
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Federal building in Financial District, Boston |
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Fenway, Beacon and Commonwealth, Boston |
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Fisher Hill, Brookline |
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Franklin Field, Dorchester, Boston |
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Franklin Park |
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Harvard Business School |
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Harvard Square section, Cambridge, Boston |
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Hotel Manger and Highway Commission, Boston and Maine Railroad |
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Kendall Square, Cambridge, Boston |
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Kenmore Square |
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Massachusetts Avenue and the Fenway |
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Orient Heights, Boston |
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Park Square district |
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Soldiers Field Road with Trotting Park, Allston, Boston |
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South Boston |
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The Fenway, Boston |
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West Roxbury, Boston |
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Winthrop Square and Federal Street |