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Boston Favorite. Manufactured by M. Pierce, Nos. 115 & 117 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass. – Vintage Photo Print

Boston Favorite. Manufactured by M. Pierce, Nos. 115 & 117 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass. — antique engraving
Boston Favorite. Manufactured by M. Pierce, Nos. 115 & 117 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass.. Antique engraving 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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Boston Favorite. Manufactured by M. Pierce, Nos. 115 & 117 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Boston Favorite. Manufactured by M. Pierce, Nos. 115 & 117 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass.

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The engraving is titled "Boston Favorite," and its imprint gives the maker as M. Pierce at Nos. 115 and 117 Hanover Street in Boston, dated 1866. Hanover Street was a busy commercial thoroughfare in the city's center, where shops and manufacturers sold goods directly to local buyers. The catalog notes tie the sheet to tobacco advertising and credit the engraving to Kilburn and Mallory, but both attributions are unconfirmed. Printed advertising like this was a common way for mid-nineteenth-century businesses to make a name recognizable to customers.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes1866
SubjectsEngraving by Kilburn and Mallory. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Boston--Business estab.; City halls--Mass.; Tobacco--ads.?; Massachusetts--Boston--Buildings; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,531 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129010

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