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The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston – Historic Photograph Print

The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston — historic image
The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston. Historic image from the Boston collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston

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Set on King Street, now State Street, the scene shows the shooting that killed five colonists on March 5, 1770, in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Paul Revere's engraving, with its title announcing the "Bloody Massacre," was published within weeks and circulated widely in the colonies. It presented the event as a deliberate slaughter of unarmed townspeople by British troops, and it helped turn public opinion against the crown's military presence in Boston. Many surviving copies were later hand-colored, so the color prints in circulation vary in tone and detail.

Original scan2,513 × 2,928 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi
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