Art Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Publication Title
Winterthur Portfolio
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Keywords
historic preservation, tenement houses, urbanization, Boston history, photography
Abstract
In The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston (1920), historian and social reformer Annie Haven Thwing documents the development of Boston's streets in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She illustrates her text with stock photographs depicting these ancient alleys lined with nineteenth-century tenement buildings. This juxtaposition of colonial and modern Boston through text and image privileges the city as a historical site, significantly doing so at a time when Bostonians were grappling with the concerns of twentieth-century urbanism, such as overcrowding, urban reform, and historic preservation.
First Page
35
Last Page
63
Volume
47
Issue
1
Repository Citation
Johnson, Amy, "Crooked and Narrow Streets" (2013). Art Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/art_fac/1
Original Citation
Johnson, A. E. (2013). Crooked and Narrow Streets. Winterthur Portfolio, 47(1), 35-63.
DOI
10.1086/670727
Version
Publisher's Version
Publisher's Statement
© 2013 by Winterthur Museum, Inc.