Alexander H. Rice, Esq., Mayor of Boston – Antique Wall Art
(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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Alexander H. Rice, Esq., Mayor of Boston comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Alexander H. Rice, Esq., Mayor of Boston
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Alexander H. Rice, the Boston mayor, appears here as a wood engraving published in Ballou's Pictorial in January 1856, the year he took office. Ballou's was a Boston weekly that paired news with engraved portraits and views, so a likeness like this one shows how a local civic leader was presented to readers at the time. Rice later served as Governor of Massachusetts, and this early engraving records him at the start of his public career. The caption card's subject tags also point to Boston Harbor, though the record does not say how that setting connects to the portrait.
| Created / published | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, 1856 January 12. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Newspapers...; BI; Massachusetts--Boston--Harbor; Massachusetts--Boston--1856; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,080 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144658 |
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