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Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street – Vintage Photo Print

Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. 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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This rare historic print captures Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street in remarkable detail. 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, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street

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Mr. Thurston's house is the detail that sets this view apart from other Beacon Hill scenes, which were common subjects for printmakers. The picture looks up the steep residential slope from Bowdoin Street toward the State House that crowns the hill. Charles Bulfinch designed that building in the late 1790s, and the streets around it filled with brick townhouses for Boston's established families. The shelflist card associates the print with the name Bufford, likely the Boston lithographic firm of John H. Bufford, but the card's details are unverified and no date is recorded, so the print's exact age remains uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,240 × 1,177 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176179

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