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[Old South Meeting House & Old South Building, Boston, Mass.] – Antique Photo Print

[Old South Meeting House & Old South Building, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Old South Meeting House & Old South Building, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Old South Meeting House & Old South Building, Boston, Mass.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Old South Meeting House & Old South Building, Boston, Mass.]

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Few buildings in Boston carry as much history as the Old South Meeting House, pictured here alongside the Old South Building on the busy downtown streets. The meeting house, completed in 1729, was where colonists gathered in December 1773 before the Boston Tea Party, and by the early 1900s it had become a museum-like landmark amid commercial blocks. This glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities and scenery in the years around 1900 and sold views widely, so the picture also shows how a crowded commercial street looked at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 2871 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034099. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsChurches. Commercial facilities. Streets.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan795 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67211

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