{"id":998,"date":"2010-08-16T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:37:53","slug":"6000-old-photos-of-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/6000-old-photos-of-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"6,000 old photos of Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppl_ri_images\/4019316770\/\">Panorama of Providence<\/a>, 1903. One of 6,000 items (almost all historical) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppl_ri_images\/\">Providence Public Library Flickr stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/panoram-providence-1903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/panoram-providence-1903.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"panoram-providence-1903\" width=\"406\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-999\" \/><\/a><em>Providence in 1903<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed that Lovecraft never set foot on a sea-going vessel, but looking at the pictures there seems to have been a thriving commuter service by steamboat to New York.  Did he always travel to New York by train, or sometimes by steam-boat? [Update: it seems he never went to New York that way, but friends such as Morton and Loveman did.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ref-room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ref-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ref-room\" width=\"406\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000\" \/><\/a>Reference reading room, Providence Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/childrens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/childrens.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"childrens\" width=\"406\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1001\" \/><\/a>Children&#8217;s reading room, Providence Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ladd-observatory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ladd-observatory.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ladd-observatory\" width=\"406\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1002\" \/><\/a>Ladd Observatory, Providence.  Frequented by Lovecraft in his youth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/quinsnicket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/quinsnicket.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"quinsnicket\" width=\"406\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1004\" \/><\/a>Quinsnicket, one of Lovecraft&#8217;s favourite parkland\/woodland walks in Providence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panorama of Providence, 1903. One of 6,000 items (almost all historical) on the Providence Public Library Flickr stream. Providence in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/6000-old-photos-of-providence\/\">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-998","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\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}