Sale 2548 | Lot 260v
260 •(MASSACHUSETTS--COLONIAL HISTORY)
An album with more than 100 photographs of landmark buildings, monuments, and other historical places in Massachusetts, largely relating to early United States history and culture.
With photographs from Concord, Plymouth, Salem, Boston, Sudbury, Lexington, Cambridge, Dorchester, and more. Sites include the home of Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson; the birthplaces of Paul Revere and John Quincy Adams; monuments to the Revolution, locations of important events, including Boston Harbor and the Roger Williams "Old Witch House"; and iconic Boston buildings, such as Christ Church, Faneuil Hall, and the Old Corner Bookstore. Silver prints, the images measuring 4¾x3¾ inches (12.1x9.5 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, each with a printed caption label opposite or below the print. 4to, green cloth, lightly worn. Circa 1901
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