The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor
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The Boston Tea Party took place on the night of December 16, 1773, when colonists disguised as Mohawk men boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into the water. The protest was against the Tea Act and the principle of taxation without representation, and it pushed Parliament toward the Coercive Acts that closed the port and tightened royal control over Massachusetts. Pictures of the event, often engraved long after the fact, tend to show the tea chests being hoisted over the rails under a crowd of onlookers, so the scene is worth reading as a piece of later memory as much as an eyewitness record.
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,197 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 5 |
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