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[Boston, Mass.] – Historic Print

[Boston, Mass.], c1936. — historic print
[Boston, Mass.], c1936.. 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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This halftone photoprint, catalogued only as "[Boston, Mass.]," carries the copyright line of Samuel Chamberlain and the number 231, which places it within his series of photoprints of the city. Chamberlain was best known as an etcher and writer who documented Boston and New England's streets, harbors, and old buildings, and in the 1930s his photoprints were widely sold as affordable views of the region. The record gives no specific street or building, so the image is best read as an example of how a skilled printmaker recorded the city's appearance during the Depression years, when such views were popular with visitors and collectors alike.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain. No. 231. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 966 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151436

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