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Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16 1773" – Historic Reproduction

Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16 1773", c1903. — vintage postcard
Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16 1773", c1903.. Vintage postcard from the Boston collection.

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A window into the past: Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16 1773", preserved in this vintage postcard. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16 1773"

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This color postcard reproduces an engraving made in 1784, eleven years after the event it depicts rather than a photograph taken at the scene. The subject is the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, when colonists boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped tea overboard to protest the British Tea Act; the caption card records three cargoes destroyed. The original design was by Daniel Chodowiecki, a Berlin-based artist working far from Massachusetts, and it was engraved by D. Berger, so the image shows how the event was seen in Europe rather than firsthand. Its c1903 printing also reflects how early twentieth-century publishers kept revolutionary-era scenes in circulation.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photomechanical print (postcard) : color.
SubjectsG6078 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction based on engraving by D. Berger, 1784, after D. Chodowiecki. No. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Original scan1,536 × 1,016 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176868

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