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American House Hanover Street, Boston - by Lewis Rice – Historic Photograph Print

American House Hanover Street, Boston - by Lewis Rice, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
American House Hanover Street, Boston - by Lewis Rice, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the Boston collection.

(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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American House Hanover Street, Boston - by Lewis Rice comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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American House Hanover Street, Boston - by Lewis Rice

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The subject here is the American House, a hotel on Hanover Street in Boston, a busy commercial thoroughfare in the city's center. Hotels like this one were common meeting points for travelers, merchants, and local businessmen in the nineteenth century, when Boston's streets were crowded with horse-drawn traffic and shopfronts. The record credits Lewis Rice as the maker and links the sheet to the name Bufford, which points to the Boston lithographic trade, though the card gives no firm date. Viewers can use the streetscape to get a sense of the building's place in the neighborhood's daily life.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176160

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