Old Boston - Beacon Hill from Mt. Vernon St. near the head of Hancock St. – Historic Print
(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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Old Boston - Beacon Hill from Mt. Vernon St. near the head of Hancock St. comes to life in this historic print, 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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Old Boston - Beacon Hill from Mt. Vernon St. near the head of Hancock St.
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Few streets show Beacon Hill as clearly as Mount Vernon Street, which climbs the hill's north slope past rows of brick townhouses built for Boston's merchant families in the early 1800s. This view, taken near the head of Hancock Street, looks across the rooftops toward the hill's crown, where Charles Bulfinch's State House had stood since 1798 and where a beacon pole once gave the hill its name. The record dates the print to about 1858 and associates it with the lithographer J.H. Bufford, though the catalog notes these details are unverified. The street itself is the main draw, a record of the residential neighborhood that the hill's wealthy families built.
| Created / published | c1858 August 5. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | 428 [i.e., 431?] U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford, J.H. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,287 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128214 |
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