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An east view of the new meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston / S. Hill sc. – Antique Photo Print

An east view of the new meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston / S. Hill sc., 1792 — historic print
An east view of the new meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston / S. Hill sc., 1792. 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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An east view of the new meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston / S. Hill sc.

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The view looks east along Hollis Street at the church's new meeting house, a building the engraver S. Hill recorded in 1792. The print ran as an illustration in the December 1792 issue of *The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment*, a Boston monthly published by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Local views like this one were among the few ways readers beyond the town could see the city's buildings, and churches, as the principal public structures of Congregational Boston, were common subjects. The etching preserves how the street and its meeting house looked just after the end of the eighteenth century's rebuilding of the city.

Created / published1792
Medium1 print : etching.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1790-1800.Etchings 1790-1800.
NotesMassa. Mag. 1792. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston : Isaih Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1792 (December).
SubjectsHollis Street Church (Boston, Mass.)--1790-1800. Churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1790-1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117019

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