The Stamp Act riots in Boston – 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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The Stamp Act riots in Boston comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Stamp Act riots in Boston
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Few episodes in colonial Boston drew more attention in later schoolbooks than the August 1765 riots against the Stamp Act. This wood engraving is recorded as an illustration in Ellis's *Youth's History of the United States*, a late nineteenth-century text for young readers. That August, a mob destroyed the house of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson and attacked the home of Andrew Oliver, the man named to distribute the stamps. The print therefore shows how a later generation chose to picture colonial protest against British taxation.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Ellis, Youths Hist. of the U.S., p. 329. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Riots--; U.S. Hist.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126907 |
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