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The Japanese Lantern in The Public Garden – New & Historic Photos

The Japanese Lantern in the Public Garden is the answer to our latest Attention to Detail hunt. Yesterday, we gave you this clue.

Here are two more photos from the Boston Public Library's Leslie Jones Collection.

This one is in summer and shows both Swan Boats and rowboats on the Lagoon. Here's a link to learn more about it.

Here's another Leslie Jones winter scene with the lantern near the top center. Here's a link to this photo.

As you walk around Boston, you can play our game of "Attention to Detail" by looking for our clues or trying to recall where you've seen them. 

In addition to playing it here from time to time, Penny has two newspaper columns in the Back Bay Sun and Beacon Hill Times where readers are given a photo detail of a building each week. The following week, they learn where it's located and a bit about that detail or that building.

If you missed the detail, you can click here see it.

Click here is for our complete Attention to Detail collection.

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Words: Penny  Cherubino
Recent photo: © 2012 Penny Cherubino  

Archival Photos from the Boston Public Library Leslie Jones collection used under this creative commons license. 

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Where Are These Grazers? Play Attention to Detail

 

Where would you find this artwork of two creatures grazing on foliage?

Clue: They are surrounded by nature in the heart of the city.

As you walk around Boston, you can play our game of "Attention to Detail" by looking for our clues or trying to recall where you've seen them. 

In addition to playing it here from time to time, Penny has two newspaper columns in the Back Bay Sun and Beacon Hill Times where readers are given a photo detail of a building each week. The following week, they learn where it's located and a bit about that detail or that building.

We won't make you wait a week for the answer here. Check back tomorrow for the solution. 

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Photography: © 2012 Penny Cherubino  

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The Statue of Science at the BPL in Copley Square

The toes in yesterday's clue are on the allegorical sculpture of Science at the entrance to the Boston Public Library. It is the work of Boston sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt, who was a teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. When his mentor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, could not complete the commissioned artwork for this area, Pratt was selected to create two statues representing Art and Science.

From the Boston Public Library's Collection here is Bella Pratt's reduced clay model for the work. I have not found any early photo showing that the lamps were ever installed.

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Where Would You Find These Toes?

As you walk around Boston, you can play our game of "Attention to Detail" by looking for our clues or trying to recall where you've seen them. These toes must be pretty cold about now. 

In addition to playing it here from time to time, Penny has two newspaper columns in the Back Bay Sun and Beacon Hill Times where readers are given a photo of a detail of a building each week. The following week they learn where it's located and a bit about that detail or that building.

We won't make you wait a week for the answer here. Check back tomorrow for the solution. 

Do you have an Amazon Gift Certificate to use? Or do you need to buy one for a gift? Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

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Words: Penny  Cherubino
Photography: © 2012 Penny Cherubino  

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Did You Guess "Zamboni at the Frog Pond?"

If your guess to our close-up clue was the Zamboni clearing the ice on the Boston Common Frog Pond, you were right!

Today would have be Frank Zamboni's 112th Birthday and Google is celebrating with a Google Doodle that will let you drive their Zamboni.  

Here's a bit more about the history of the Zamboni (which this one happens to be) and ice surfacers (the term used when this equipment is made by other manufacturers). 

We bet the Frog Pond skaters are happy they don't have to wait for a crew of people to go out and scrape, wash, and squeegee the ice by hand. Click over to Google and test your Zamboni skills.

(Here's a link to past Google Doodle's if you find this post after today.)

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
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What Is This And Where Did We Spot It? Play Attention to Detail

When we back out from this close up, what will you see? And, where did we take this shot?

This is a game we play called "Attention to Detail." In addition to playing it here from time to time, Penny has two newspaper columns in the Back Bay and Beacon Hill where readers are given a photo of a detail of a building each week. The following week they learn where it's located and a bit about that detail or that building.

We won't make you wait a week for the answer here. Check back tomorrow for the solution.  

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Here's Where You'll Find Yesterday's Attention to Detail Clue

The design element in yesterday's clue is part of our decaying infrastructure. It's on the Red Line subway entrance on Main Street in Cambridge adjacent to the Longfellow Bridge (map). So, if it should fall or pieces of it were to drop off, it could hit a Red Line train. 

  

It's hard to look at it now and realize how well designed it was and how even little details like these scuppers that drained water from the barrel shaped roof were graceful as well as useful.

Here's one of the corner elements. Lets hope it stays in place long enough to be repaired. 

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