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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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Catalogued only under the city name, this halftone is numbered No. 239 and copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain, an etcher and photographer who issued many photoprint views of New England in the 1930s. The record does not say which street, waterfront or building appears, and its caption-card details are unverified, so the exact scene is uncertain. Halftone screening broke a photograph into dots that could be printed in books and portfolios, which made affordable views of cities widely available during the Depression years.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain. No. 239. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 974 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151439

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