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Frog Pond, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts

Subjects
Forests & TreesLakes & PondsPublic Parks & Commons
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Frog Pond, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Frog Pond, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
Back

About this subject

View of Frog Pond on Boston Common, with a fountain spraying water, large trees, benches, and people seated along the shore; a path curves at right.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Mary, I am here in Boston and shall come to see you first chance I have. With love - Ida -

PublisherThe Metropolitan News Co.
FROG POND, BOSTON COMMON. --- POST CARD For Correspondence For Address Published by the Metropolitan News Co Boston Mass. and Germany (Made in Germany)
PostmarkedBoston, MA, September 23, 1909, 16:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mary Garnett

Children's Hospital, Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass.

Postcard record

Postmarked, Boston, MA
ConditionVery good
Place addressedMary Garnett, Children's Hospital, Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
Place depictedBoston Common, Boston, MA
PublisherThe Metropolitan News Co., Boston, MA
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
NotesNo publisher line visible; color lithograph; no white border visible. Postmark: BOSTON MASS. SEP 23 4-PM 1909 / FENWAY STATION; divided-back card printed in Germany; light soiling and brownish stains, minor edge/corner wear.

Cite this card

Frog Pond, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/frog-pond-boston-common-boston-massachusetts. Accessed October 5, 2026.