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[Minuteman memorial, possibly Lexington, Massachusetts] – Vintage Print

[Minuteman memorial, possibly Lexington, Massachusetts], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Minuteman memorial, possibly Lexington, Massachusetts], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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: [Minuteman memorial, possibly Lexington, Massachusetts], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Minuteman memorial, possibly Lexington, Massachusetts]

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Catalogued as a Minuteman memorial, possibly on the Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, this glass plate records a monument to the militia who gathered there on April 19, 1775, the opening morning of the American Revolutionary War. The Detroit Publishing Company sent photographers across the country in the years around 1900 to 1915, and Revolutionary War sites drew steady interest from tourists and patriotic societies of that era. The upper section of the 5 by 7 inch negative is cracked and has been repaired with tape, a reminder of how fragile these plates became after decades in storage.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Possibly on the Green in Lexington. Negative cracked upper section and taped. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068373. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan717 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76970

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