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Boston Public Library
Collections of the Print Department
Print Department
McKim Building, 3rd Floor
617-536-5400, ext. 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.

•	Jules Aarons Photograph Collection
•	Leon Abdalian Collection
•	American Printmaking Collection
•	E.E. Bond Photograph Collection
•	Boston Pictorial Archive
•	British Printmaking Collection
•	The Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
•	The Curley Collection
•	Images of the Performing Arts
•	Leslie Jones Photograph Collection
•	McGreevey Baseball Collection
•	Naturalist Photography Collection
•	Postcard Collection
•	Western Photograph Collection

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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