[Ether Monument, Boston, Massachusetts]

[Ether Monument, Boston, Massachusetts]

Photograph

[Ether Monument, Boston, Massachusetts]

ca. 1875
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 3/4 × 3 1/16 in. (9.5 × 7.8 cm)
Mount: 3 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (10 × 17.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on mount on recto, BR: Ether Monument in the Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RT: Ether Monument
Inscribed in ink on verso, C: The Ether Monument to the \ discovery, and to the discoverer, \ whoever he may be, of anaesthetics, \ was presented by Thomas Lee, \ and dedicated in June 1868.
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