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[Boston, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Boston, Mass.], c1936. — historic print
[Boston, Mass.], c1936.. 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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A window into the past: [Boston, Mass.], preserved in this historic print. 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 record gives only the city, so this halftone is best read as a general view of Boston around 1936. Samuel Chamberlain, an etcher and photographer known for his New England subjects, issued copyrighted photoprints like this one in a numbered series; this example is No. 201. Halftone reproduction broke a photograph into a pattern of dots, which let printers make sharp, inexpensive copies in quantity. The exact location is unconfirmed because the caption card was only partly transcribed.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain. No. 201. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 961 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151726

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