[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.] – Antique Print
![[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.], [between 1860 and 1865] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/32/327fb6243ab5-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.]
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Photographed by a Charlestown studio operator named Bryant, whose address is printed on the back, this card shows the granite obelisk on Breed's Hill that commemorates the 1775 battle. The cornerstone was laid in 1825 with Lafayette in attendance, and the shaft was completed in 1842, rising about 221 feet. The card survives in an album compiled by John White Geary, which gathered portraits of Union officers and other figures from the Civil War years, so it likely circulated as a keepsake of the site during that period.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | On verso: Photographed by Bryant, 140 1/2 Main Street, Charlestown. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 139, surrogate p. 35 (lower left). Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. |
| Subjects | Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,134 × 3,156 px · prints to 7 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-195577 |
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