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[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: Title page (1)] – Historic Reproduction

[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: Title page (1)] — historic photograph
[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: Title page (1)]. 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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A window into the past: [Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: Title page (1)], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Cock Robin's Death and Funeral (Boston, 1780): copy negatives of all ten pages: Title page (1)]

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The title page of *Cock Robin's Death and Funeral* opens a ten-page chapbook printed in Boston in 1780, a funeral procession retelling of the old nursery rhyme about a robin's murder. Small, inexpensive pamphlets like this were a common way for children and families to read in late eighteenth-century America, when printers in Boston and other towns turned traditional rhymes into short verse stories with simple woodcuts. The title page sets the tone for the whole pamphlet, and it survives here as a copy negative made from the original, which is why it is worth a closer look.

Medium1 item.
Notes1780
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125803

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