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View of the City of Boston – Historic Photograph Print

View of the City of Boston — historic image
View of the City of Boston. Historic image from the Boston collection.

(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 historic image of View of the City of Boston. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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View of the City of Boston

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Unlike the many views that single out one wharf or church, this print takes in the whole town at once, with its church spires, rooftops, and waterfront crowded against the harbor. In the early 1800s Boston was among the busiest ports in the young United States, and its merchants, shipyards, and wharves drove a steady trade with Europe, the West Indies, and China. Printmakers often drew such city views from the water or nearby heights, so buyers could see at a glance the commercial center that gave the town its prosperity. The print is useful for studying how the peninsula looked before the later filling of the flats and the rapid growth of the nineteenth century.

Original scan5,958 × 4,431 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceBoston-1841

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