Burning of Stamp Act, Boston – Vintage Print
(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: Burning of Stamp Act, Boston, preserved in this vintage postcard. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Burning of Stamp Act, Boston
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This color postcard depicts the burning of stamps during the Stamp Act protests in Boston in 1765, when colonists rejected a British tax on printed paper, including newspapers, pamphlets, and legal documents. Crowds gathered at the Liberty Tree and in the streets to show their opposition, and the stamps they burned became a public symbol of resistance. Because the card dates from around 1903, it reflects how later generations pictured this moment as a patriotic episode in the city's revolutionary past. The caption data is unverified, so the scene is best read as an early twentieth-century interpretation rather than a record made at the time.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (postcard) : color. |
| Notes | G6076 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110158 |
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