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[Boston, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Boston, Mass.], c1936. — historic print
[Boston, Mass.], c1936.. Historic print 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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A window into the past: [Boston, Mass.], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Catalogued under the waterfront, with the caption card noting piers, this view most likely shows the wharves and shipping along Boston Harbor. It was issued by Samuel Chamberlain, an etcher and photographer who produced copyrighted photoprints of New England subjects in the 1930s, and this one is numbered 235 in his series. The record is unverified and dated only to about 1936, so the exact location and vantage point are worth checking against the image itself. Chamberlain's series preserves how the working harbor looked in that decade.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain. No. 235. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Piers.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 964 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151728

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