The City of Boston / Parsons & Atwater del. – Antique 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 rare antique lithograph captures The City of Boston / Parsons & Atwater del. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The City of Boston / Parsons & Atwater del.
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Drawn from an elevated vantage point, this chromolithograph gives a sweeping, colored view of Boston around 1873, roughly a year after the Great Boston Fire of November 1872 destroyed much of the downtown business district. Currier & Ives, the New York firm best known for its popular prints, published the sheet, and the drawing is credited to Parsons & Atwater. Bird's-eye views like this were prized by civic boosters and residents who wanted to see their city laid out in a single image, with its streets, wharves and church spires readable at a glance.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1873. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph ; 57.2 x 83.4 cm. (image with accompanying text) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1870-1880.Cityscape prints 1870-1880.Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 10860 1873 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Currier & Ives, New York. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1204 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 275 |
| Subjects | Boston (Mass.)--1870-1880.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,059 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114855 |
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