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1851
Prints: Boston, Ma.: State Street
GUSN-198219
The bottom half of this page from Gleason's Pictorial shows a view of State Street decorated for the Railroad Jubilee. Men in uniform ride horses and carry banners. Flags are strung between the two sides of the street as a crowd watches the procession moving toward the Old State House.
celebrations
flags
banners
processions
horseback riding
uniforms
spectators (event observers)
state government
historic buildings
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR206
1 newspaper engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1924-04-04
GC002.01.MA.3050.007
Gift
15 x 11 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Hollis French, 1924
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Worcester, Fernando Edwards, b. 1818 (Engraver)
Waud, William, d. 1878 (Illustrator)
Gleason's Pictorial
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
State Street (Boston, Mass.)
Poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: State Street
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