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Attack on Brookfield – Vintage Wall Art

Attack on Brookfield, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Attack on Brookfield, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Attack on Brookfield. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The particular subject here is the attack on Brookfield, a small settlement in central Massachusetts, which the caption card places in 1675 during King Philip's War. That conflict pitted New England colonists against a coalition of Native nations led by Metacom, known to the English as King Philip, and Brookfield was one of many frontier towns hit that summer. Because the card gives no date and the record is unverified, treat the year as provisional. As an engraving reproduced in the book *American Scenes*, the image reflects a later artist's interpretation of the event rather than an eyewitness view, so its details are worth reading as period imagination as much as documentation.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: American Scenes, p. 132. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Indians; U.S. Hist.--1675.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,330 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158148

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