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View of Portsmouth, N.H., 1873 July 4: From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, looking across the South Mill Pond – Historic Photograph Print

View of Portsmouth, N.H., 1873 July 4: From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, looking across the South Mill Pond, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
View of Portsmouth, N.H., 1873 July 4: From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, looking across the South Mill Pond, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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This historic print of View of Portsmouth, N.H., 1873 July 4: From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, looking across the South Mill Pond brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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View of Portsmouth, N.H., 1873 July 4: From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, looking across the South Mill Pond

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From the head of Mt. Vernon Street, this view looks out over South Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a tidal basin bordered by mills and workshops. The title dates the scene to July 4, 1873, Independence Day, when the town's streets and waterfront would have been busy. The print reproduces a drawing by E. Whitfield, so it shows the artist's sketch in reproduced form rather than a photograph, and the caption's details are older notes that have not been fully verified. Portsmouth was an active seaport in the nineteenth century, and views like this one show how its waterfront was built up around work and trade.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
SubjectsRepro. of drawing by E. Whitfield. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; N.H--Portsmouth--1873; Geogr.; Publ. Ind.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,075 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145059

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