Black and white photograph of a steeple with weathervane over a harbor city – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Black and white photograph of a steeple with weathervane over a harbor city, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Black and white photograph of a steeple with weathervane over a harbor city
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A steeple crowned with a weathervane rises above the rooftops of a harbor city, a skyline that would have been familiar to generations of sailors approaching Boston. Church steeples like this one served as navigation marks and as the town's most visible landmarks, and weathervanes on them showed mariners and townspeople the wind's direction. The park's sites, including Dorchester Heights, overlook this same harbor, and in March 1776 Continental forces fortified those heights, a move that pressed the British to leave Boston. The black-and-white format keeps the focus on the outline of the rooftops and the spire.
| Original scan | 3,748 × 3,132 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 075837pu 19. WEST ELEVATION, LEVEL |
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