Ship-building at East Boston – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 antique engraving of Ship-building at East Boston brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ship-building at East Boston
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Shipyards along East Boston's waterfront form the subject of this wood engraving, which shows work on the harbor's far shore, a district that became a center of wooden shipbuilding in the 1850s. V. Ace made the engraving, and it appeared in *Ballou's Pictorial*, a Boston illustrated weekly, on May 19, 1855. Donald McKay's yard there produced some of the famous clipper ships of the era, and engravings like this one gave readers who never saw the docks a sense of the work. The date and attribution come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by V. Ace. Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, May 19, 1855. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,048 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108146 |
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