[Front page of Boston Gazette, Mar. 11, 1771, with memorial anniversary story of Boston Massacre"]" – Historic Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Front page of Boston Gazette, Mar. 11, 1771, with memorial anniversary story of Boston Massacre"]". The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The front page of the Boston Gazette for March 11, 1771, is set apart by its subject: a story marking the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre. On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd on King Street, killing five colonists, and the event quickly became a rallying point for patriot writers. The engraved masthead at the top adds the kind of ornament common on colonial papers of the period. Seeing the Gazette devote its front page to the anniversary shows how a local newspaper kept the incident in public memory a year after it happened.
| Created / published | 1771 Mar. 11. |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Newspaper front page with engraved masthead. Illus. in: Boston Gazette. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Newspapers; U.S. Hist.; Mass.--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 941 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149814 |
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