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Cunard Line of mail steamers - Office 99 State St., Boston – Historic Print

Cunard Line of mail steamers - Office 99 State St., Boston, [188-(?)] — historic print
Cunard Line of mail steamers - Office 99 State St., Boston, [188-(?)]. 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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The most distinctive thing about this piece is its subject: a commercial office rather than a street view or building portrait. It advertises the Cunard Line of mail steamers from its 99 State Street office in Boston, the transatlantic shipping company founded in Liverpool in 1840 that carried mail and passengers between Britain and North America. Woodcut advertising like this, printed in black, blue and red, was a common way for steamship agents to attract travelers and freight customers in the late nineteenth century. The record dates it only tentatively to the 1880s, based on an unverified caption card, so the exact year should be treated with some caution.

Created / published[188-(?)]
Medium1 print : woodcut.
NotesWoodcut printed in black, blue and red by Ledger Print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 766 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108027

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