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The destruction of tea at Boston Harbor – Historic Print

The destruction of tea at Boston Harbor — historic image
The destruction of tea at Boston Harbor. Historic image from the Boston collection.

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This historic image of The destruction of tea at Boston Harbor brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, is the event this picture depicts, when colonists boarded British East India Company ships in Griffin's Wharf and dumped chests of tea into the harbor to protest the Tea Act and the principle of taxation without representation. Britain answered with the Coercive Acts of 1774, which closed the port of Boston and tightened royal control over Massachusetts, turning a local dispute into a broader imperial crisis. Prints of the scene were widely circulated in the years that followed, and they helped shape how Americans and Britons alike understood the episode as a defining step toward the Revolutionary War.

Original scan6,923 × 5,342 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
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