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[View of Boston, Massachusetts, from water] – Vintage Wall Art

[View of Boston, Massachusetts, from water], [1854] — antique engraving
[View of Boston, Massachusetts, from water], [1854]. Antique engraving from the Boston National Historic Park 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: [View of Boston, Massachusetts, from water], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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From the harbor, the view takes in Faneuil Hall, the market building and public meeting place that Bostonians called the "Cradle of Liberty" because of its role in colonial-era protests. Steamboats and sailing ships crowd the waterfront in the foreground, a reminder of how central the port was to the city's trade in the 1850s. The engraving appeared in *Gleason's Pictorial*, a Boston illustrated weekly that brought scenes of local and national life to a wide readership. Its close attention to the working waterfront makes it useful for seeing how the city looked from the water just before the Civil War.

Created / published[1854]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreEngravings 1850-1860.
NotesFrom Gleason's Pictorial, 1854.
SubjectsFaneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.)--1850-1860. Steamboats--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860. Ships--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860. Waterfronts--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,775 × 2,991 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194367

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