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Massachusetts - Boston - John Adams statue – Antique Print

Massachusetts - Boston - John Adams statue, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Massachusetts - Boston - John Adams statue, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Boston National Historic Park 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 Massachusetts - Boston - John Adams statue, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Massachusetts - Boston - John Adams statue

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The subject here is a statue of John Adams, the second president and a Massachusetts native, set in Boston rather than in his home town of Braintree, now Quincy. The caption card gives no date and its details are unverified, so the photograph's exact year is uncertain. Like many of Boston's bronze civic monuments, the statue honors a figure from the Revolutionary era whose public reputation was shaped by later generations. The print comes from the Wittemann Collection, a group of photographs of the city and its statuary, and it shows how the monument was presented to the public at the time it was made.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 2368. Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Massachusetts--Boston; Pres. I.; Statues; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144364

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