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State Street, Boston – Historic Photo Reproduction

State Street, Boston, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
State Street, Boston, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving 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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State Street, Boston comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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State Street runs down from the center of Boston toward the harbor, and this engraving captures the point where the street met the water, with ships and wharves close to the city's business district. The plate is credited to S. Lacey and follows a drawing attributed to W.H. Bartlett, a British topographical artist whose American views were widely reproduced in steel engravings for illustrated books and magazines in the decades around 1840. Such views were valued for recording the working waterfront and street life of a growing port city, and the Old State House, built in the early 1700s, stood at the head of the street as one of its best-known landmarks.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsEngraving by S. Lacey after [?] by W.H. Bartlett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Water; Street cleaning; Publ. Ind. (2); Geogr.; Capitals--Mass.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146222

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