Crooked and Narrow Streets
Photography and Urban Visual Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19352234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Edith Johnson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-64 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Winterthur Portfolio (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-0416 • E-ISSN: 1545-6927 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/670727 |
| OpenAlex | W447369846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Haven · Overcrowding · Political science · Safe haven · Urbanism · Visual arts · American Environmental and Regional History · Architecture · Cultural History and Identity Formation · History · Law · Urbanization and City Planning
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |