The Old State House, Boston – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Old State House, Boston. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Old State House, Boston
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Few buildings in Boston carry as much Revolutionary history as the Old State House, seen here in a color photochrom from about 1900. Completed in 1713 as the seat of colonial government, the brick building stood at the head of State Street, where the Boston Massacre took place in the street outside in 1770. The Declaration of Independence was read from its balcony in July 1776. This print was issued by the Detroit Publishing Co., which used the photochrom process to produce color views of American sites, and it is one of many numbered images in that company's catalog.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53447. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Old State House (Boston, Mass.) Capitols.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,280 × 4,441 px · prints to 11 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225682 |
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