[Line of the Minutemen memorial on the Green, Lexington, Mass.] – Historic Print
![[Line of the Minutemen memorial on the Green, Lexington, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cc/cce23e901350-L.webp)
(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 rare historic photograph captures [Line of the Minutemen memorial on the Green, Lexington, Mass.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Line of the Minutemen memorial on the Green, Lexington, Mass.]
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The memorial stands on the Lexington Green, the small common where Captain John Parker's militia company gathered before dawn on April 19, 1775. Shots fired there that morning are often cited as the opening clash of the Revolutionary War, and the monument commemorates the men who held their line. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 5 by 7 inch glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1915, when the town was building up its public memory of the battle. The firm was known for photographing American towns and landmarks, and this view shows the open, tree-lined square as it looked in those years.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | 1775 |
| Notes | Title devised by cataloger. Line of the Minute Men |
| Subjects | Minutemen (Militia) Battlefields. Parks. Monuments & memorials. Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775.United States--Massachusetts--Lexington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 3,336 × 2,349 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76964 |
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