Victory Garden Aerial View from the 1950s

While researching another subject, I ran across this aerial photo and recognized it as one of my favorite photography destinations, the Fenway Victory Gardens.

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It dates from 1954-1959 and is part of the MIT Kepes/Lynch Collection.

Map today

Here's a link to the map of the area today as offered on the Fenway Victory Gardens site. I flipped this view so you could compare.

Other Victory Garden Posts:

Fenway Victory Gardens Spring Scenes

Ring for the Gardener!

On Vacation in Boston – Exploring the Fenway

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Words: Penny Cherubino
Photography: From the MIT Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) Kepes/Lynch Collection, used under this creative commons license.

Screenshot: from the google map of the area.

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