View of the long wharf and part of the harbour of Boston in New England, America – Antique Photo 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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This historic print of View of the long wharf and part of the harbour of Boston in New England, America brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of the long wharf and part of the harbour of Boston in New England, America
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Long Wharf, which stretched from the foot of State Street into Boston Harbor, was one of the busiest working waterfronts in colonial America, and this view shows it as a crowded line of ships and warehouses. The wharf was built in the early eighteenth century and handled everything from fish and lumber to imported goods, so its forest of masts and rigging reflected the city's trade with ports across the Atlantic. This is a late-nineteenth-century reproduction of an earlier engraving, so the scene reflects how the harbor looked to the people who drew it, not a photograph taken on the spot. Its details of ship types and waterfront buildings are worth comparing with the historical record.
| Created / published | c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repr. of early engraving. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150966 |
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