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[Boston, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Boston, Mass.], c1936. — historic print
[Boston, Mass.], c1936.. Historic print from the Boston 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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A window into the past: [Boston, Mass.], preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The record does not tie this view to a specific street or building, so it is best read as Boston as Samuel Chamberlain chose to show it around 1936. Chamberlain, an etcher and photographer, issued numbered photoprints under his copyright, which is why this example carries the number 238 and his name. Boston in the mid-1930s mixed old brick streets and waterfront with newer commercial blocks, and his pictures often played those textures against each other. The halftone process breaks the image into dots, so the print conveys tone more than fine detail.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Samuel Chamberlain. No. 238. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 991 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151435

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