[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: p. 10] – Historic Reproduction
![[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: p. 10] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/3932431967df-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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[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: p. 10] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: p. 10]
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Among the Boston views on this board, this one is a nursery rhyme rather than a street or building. It is page 10 of a ten-page chapbook of *Cock Robin*, the English verse in which the birds of the field gather to bury a robin slain by a sparrow. The 1780 imprint shows that the rhyme, already popular in England for decades, had reached Boston's printers and children's book trade during the Revolutionary War. Copy negatives like these preserve the pages of small, fragile publications that were often read until they fell apart, offering a record of how simple verse was adapted for young American readers.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1780 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,141 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125808 |
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