The Boston Massacre – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
The Boston Massacre comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Boston Massacre
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Few events in colonial Boston were retold as often as the shooting on King Street on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a crowd and killed five colonists, Crispus Attucks among them. This wood engraving carries that story in a form meant for print, though the caption card gives no date. Paul Revere's 1770 engraving of the incident circulated widely and helped turn the event into a rallying point for the patriot cause. Images like this one kept that story alive for later readers, and wood engraving, which let text and pictures share a printed page, was a common method for illustrated newspapers and books in the 19th century.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,433 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127879 |
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