Intersection of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue, Looking West
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateMarch 24, 1898
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensionsimage: 12.3 × 16.4 cm (4 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
sheet: 19.6 × 24.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
bound: 20.5 × 25.4 × 2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 × 13/16 in.)
sheet: 19.6 × 24.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
bound: 20.5 × 25.4 × 2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 × 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.271.26
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.Coulson documents the intersection of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue just before it was transformed by major development. The Salisbury property at the far left corner of the intersection became the home of the American Antiquarian Society. The library moved there in 1910 from Lincoln Square, where it had been for most of the nineteenth century. The white house and adjoining barns in the distance are the Johnson Farm. The birthplace of George Bancroft, here hidden by trees, stood across the street from the Johnson Farm. It was demolished shortly after this photograph was taken in order to siden Salisbury Street.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.51, plate 31
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
On View
Not on view
Frederick K. Coulson
December 12, 1900
