Vintage Building Photo - Boston - Steamer Glass in Hancock School – Vintage Wall Art
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Vintage Building Photo - Boston - Steamer Glass in Hancock School comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Vintage Building Photo - Boston - Steamer Glass in Hancock School
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This photograph documents a piece of equipment, labeled "steamer glass," inside the Hancock School in Boston, a building named for John Hancock, the Massachusetts patriot and first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Views like this one, showing the working interiors of civic buildings, are useful to researchers because they record the everyday technology of a school and not just its architecture. Boston's public schools of the late 1800s and early 1900s were often equipped with new heating, cooking, and laboratory apparatus, and such details reveal how institutions were run at the time. The record gives no further specifics, so the image is best read as a glimpse of the building's daily life during its era.
| Subjects | Historic Print Archive |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115124 |
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