BPL - Print Department Collections

Boston Public Library
Collections of the Print Department
Print Department
3rd Floor, McKim Building, Central Library
617.859.2280, Email: prints@bpl.org

The following is a selection of collections in the Print Department. For a full description of the department holdings, please contact the Print Department directly. Many of these collections are available online in the BPL's Flickr sets.

Primary Print Collections		Additional Online Resources
•	Jules Aarons Photograph Collection	•	Americana collection
•	Leon Abdalian Collection Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	George Wesley Bellows artwork
•	American Printmaking Collection	•	Boston Brewery Posters
•	E.E. Bond Photograph Collection	•	Boston Matchcover collection
•	Boston Pictorial Archive Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Boston stereographs
•	British Printmaking Collection	•	Boston Wharf Company collection
•	The Curley Collection	•	Cased photographs
•	The Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue	•	Circus posters
•	Images of the Performing Arts	•	Edgar Sutton Dorr collection (photographs of Boston's sewers)
•	Leslie Jones Photograph Collection Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Spencer Grant collection
•	McGreevey Baseball Collection Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Alphonse Legros self-portraits
•	Naturalist Photography Collection	•	Old Boston photograph collection
•	Photographs of the American West Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Louis Prang & Company collection
•	Postcard Collection The Tichnor Brothers postcard collection is available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Travel Posters collection
•	Produce Crate Labels collection Available in the BPL's online collections.	•	Tupper Scrapbook collection
		•	United States WWI & WII Posters collection
			Charles H. Woodbury prints

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Balloon View of Boston
(First Aerial Photograph
Taken in the United States)
Photograph by J.W. Black
October 13, 1860
Boston Pictorial Archive

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