Faneuil Hall, Boston – 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.)
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Faneuil Hall, Boston
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Faneuil Hall, the brick market and meeting house at the center of Boston's waterfront, has hosted town meetings since Peter Faneuil gave the building to the city in 1742. By the 1930s it was already a fixture of the city's identity, and a photograph from around 1931 captures it at a moment when preservationists were beginning to treat the old structures along the harbor as worth saving. Its long upper meeting hall, where colonial agitators like Samuel Adams spoke against British policy, gave the building its nickname, "the Cradle of Liberty." The c1931 date places the picture before the area's later renovations, a useful record of the building's appearance in the years between the wars.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1931. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,851 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120115 |
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