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[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.], [between 1860 and 1865] — historic photograph
[Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.], [between 1860 and 1865]. Historic photograph 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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Step back in time with [Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Bunker Hill Monument, the granite obelisk rising on Breed's Hill in Charlestown, is the subject here, and this carte de visite shows it as it stood in the early 1860s, when the monument was already a familiar landmark of the Boston area. The print was made by the photographer Bryant, whose studio address on Main Street in Charlestown is printed on the back, and it was later pasted into a Civil War-era album compiled by John White Geary, which preserved it among portraits of army officers and other people of the period. Pictures of the monument were sold widely in small card format like this one, so it offers a glimpse of how the site was documented and circulated during the war years.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
GenreCartes de visite 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesOn verso: Photographed by Bryant, 140 1/2 Main Street, Charlestown. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 139, surrogate p. 35 (lower left). Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room.
SubjectsBunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,290 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195577

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