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1954
GUSN-194385
In the image the steeple is lifted by crane to the top of the scaffold enclosed church. The steeple of Boston's Old North Church was seriously damaged by Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954. The rebuilding of the steeple was a matter of great civic pride in the city. This was the church from which patriots signaled with lanterns to Paul Revere that the British were marching to Concord and Lexington.
exterior views
churches (buildings)
steeples (building components)
hurricanes
disasters
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photographic print : black-and-white
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.052
North End (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Architectural photography
Salem Street (Boston, Mass.)
Hurricane Carol (1954)
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.)
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
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