Boston Tea Party – 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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Boston Tea Party comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boston Tea Party
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This c1911 photographic print depicts the Boston Tea Party, and the record does not name a photographer or give a more precise date. The 1773 protest, in which colonists boarded merchant ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of East India Company tea into the water, was a turning point in the run-up to the American Revolution. By the early twentieth century, the event had become a symbol of resistance to unfair taxation, and it was often commemorated in pageants and reenactments. Viewers may want to consider whether the image shows a historical scene or a later staging of it, since photographs from this period often recreated famous moments for public audiences.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1911. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126119 |
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