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Fourth of July scene, on Boston Common – Vintage Print

Fourth of July scene, on Boston Common — antique engraving
Fourth of July scene, on Boston Common. Antique engraving 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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Fourth of July scene, on Boston Common comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Fourth of July scene, on Boston Common

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Fireworks bursting over Boston Common set this engraving apart as a Fourth of July scene, showing the city's oldest park during the holiday. It ran in *Ballou's Pictorial*, a Boston illustrated weekly, on 9 July 1859, just days after Independence Day. Wood engravings like this one were cut into the end grain of hardwood blocks, a method that let engravers render crowds and night light in fine detail for the mass-circulation papers of the period.

Medium1 print : Wood engraving.
GenreIllus. in: Ballou's Pictorial" 9 July 1859
Subjectsold data from caption card. image only) . Caption card tracings: Fireworks; Mass.--Boston--Boston Common; Holidays-- Independence Day--1859; Shelf."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,063 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139143

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