{"id":7844,"date":"2013-06-22T17:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2013-06-22T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T14:47:26","slug":"a-monstrous-prospect-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/22\/a-monstrous-prospect-street\/","title":{"rendered":"A monstrous Prospect Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A monstrously large scan of a sharp 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; photographic negative showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/9470\">Prospect Street in 1906<\/a>, in which you can almost see every pebble and leaf.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/4a13603apreview.jpg\" alt=\"4a13603apreview\" width=\"512\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7845\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the same super-large set, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/12123\">Brown University<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/9239\">Crawford St. Bridge<\/a> one the bridges Lovecraft would have crossed from the East Side into the city centre.  Anyone know if there are more from this set online?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Perridas has <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisperridas.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/05\/lovecrafts-providence-crawford-street_23.html\">postcard views<\/a> showing the views of the commercial river from Crawford St. Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>[ Hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/innsmouthmania.blogspot.fr\/\">Robert<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update: I colorised it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prospect_st_providence_1906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prospect_st_providence_1906.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"prospect_st_providence_1906\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Postcard version from eBay, also dated 1906 thus confirming the date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prospect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prospect.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35087\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monstrously large scan of a sharp 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; photographic negative showing Prospect Street in 1906, in which you &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/22\/a-monstrous-prospect-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}