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1835
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
GUSN-198383
"The world should never forget the spot where once stood Liberty Tree, so famous in your annals.--La Fayette in Boston." Now this spot is the corner of Washington and Essex Streets.
trees
houses
scenes (depictions)
streetscapes
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR253
1 wood block print
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.3550.019
5.5 x 9 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850 (Engraver)
prints (visual works)
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Essex Street (Boston, Mass.)
Liberty Tree (Boston, Mass.)
Liberty trees
poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
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