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Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street – Vintage Photo Print

Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print 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 Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street

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Mr. Thurston's house anchors this view of Beacon Hill as seen from Bowdoin Street, a steep approach toward the State House that Charles Bulfinch designed on the hill's summit in the 1790s. Beacon Hill was long one of Boston's most desirable residential neighborhoods, and its brick and clapboard houses on narrow lanes reflect the city's growing prosperity. The shelflist card gives no date and links the print to the name Bufford, possibly the Boston lithographic firm, but that attribution is unverified, so the image is best read as a record of the streetscape.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,488 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128215

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