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Boston Common at Mid-afternoon

A then-and-now.

It's like a mirror!

Boston Common at Twilight by Childe Hassam, 1885-1886, from the Museum of Fine Arts collection.

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And, from earlier today, May 20, 2012.

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Boston Common in mid-afternoon by JohnAKeith, on Flickr

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Always thought of doing this, but never got around to it. Glad someone did!

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Whenever Adam posts old photos from the BPL's Flickr pool I think how cool it would be to try to recreate them. For some reason it seems even cooler to "update" a painting.

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And the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Yes, that's Boston - people barely shovel their sidewalks now, and didn't then either."

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