Old South Meeting House, Boston – Antique Print
![Old South Meeting House, Boston, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/43/43f28a60ebf9-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Old South Meeting House, Boston in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Old South Meeting House, Boston
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The Old South Meeting House on Milk Street in Boston is the subject here, a brick building whose history runs back to 1729, when its congregation first gathered there. Its best-known moment came in December 1773, when colonists met in the hall to protest the tea tax and the gathering set the Boston Tea Party in motion. The photograph is a WPA Architecture Project record, so it was made during the Depression-era survey of American buildings, and the caption card carries no date, so the exact year of the picture is unknown. Look closely at the building's steeple and brickwork, which show how a meetinghouse of the colonial period was preserved and recorded in the 1930s.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | WPA Architecture Project. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,196 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155317 |
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