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[Churches in Boston, Mass. or vicinity: Brattle Street, Catholic, Bowdoin Street, and Central Universal] – Antique Photo Print

[Churches in Boston, Mass. or vicinity: Brattle Street, Catholic, Bowdoin Street, and Central Universal], [ca. 1830] — antique engraving
[Churches in Boston, Mass. or vicinity: Brattle Street, Catholic, Bowdoin Street, and Central Universal], [ca. 1830]. 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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Four Boston congregations share this single engraved sheet, with the Brattle Street church on Brattle Square given first place among them. The plate pairs that older Congregational meetinghouse with the Catholic church, the Bowdoin Street church, and the Central Universalist church, a mix that shows how many worship traditions had taken root in the city by about 1830. The engraving appeared as an illustration in Bowen's *Picture of Boston*, one of the guidebooks that helped visitors and residents see the town's streets and public buildings. Viewed side by side, the four buildings offer a quick record of the varied religious life of the period.

Created / published[ca. 1830]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreEngravings 1820-1840.
NotesIll. in: Bowen's picture of Boston.
SubjectsChurch in Brattle Square (Boston, Mass.) Churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1820-1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan849 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166565

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