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Old Corner Bookstore, first brick building in Boston – Antique Photo Print

Old Corner Bookstore, first brick building in Boston, c1900. — historic photograph
Old Corner Bookstore, first brick building in Boston, c1900.. Historic photograph from the Books & Writers 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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Recorded as the first brick building in Boston, the Old Corner Bookstore stands at Washington and School streets in this c1900 view from the Detroit Publishing Company. Built in the early 1700s, it housed bookshops from 1828, and under the publisher Ticknor and Fields it became a meeting place for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The cracked glass negative, repaired with tape, shows the wear that many early plates endured.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegative copyrighted 1900. Negative cracked from upper right to lower right and taped to second sheet of glass. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29337. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011969. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOld Corner Bookstore (Boston, Mass.) Bookstores.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan5,804 × 7,197 px · prints to 19 × 24 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-57008

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