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1850
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Faneuil Hall
GUSN-198637
This engraving is on a sheet of advertisements for New England Tea Company, with the top half showing the two halls with signs for the fair exhibits and the bottom half showing street maps and a Chinese man sorting tea. There is also a list of teas and coffees with prices. Under the print of Faneuil Hall, it reads "Printed at the Mechanics' Fair, by Snow & Wilder, 5 Washington Street, on Adams' Fast Job Press..."
marketplaces
tea
maps
advertisements
fairs
assembly halls
prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR155
1 newspaper line engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1928-01-10
GC002.01.MA.1950.006
Gift
12.5 x 9 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Snow & Wilder (Printer)
Hoyt, William S. (Engraver)
Quiz, pseud. (Engraver)
prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)
New England Tea Company
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Faneuil Hall
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