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View of Park Street Church Steeple

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1851

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Park Street Church

GUSN

GUSN-198720

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Description

Scaffolding covers the steeple of the Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The image is from "Gleason's pictorial archive," July 12, 1851.

Details

Descriptive Terms

religious buildings
churches (buildings)
exterior views
scaffolds
steeples (building components)
scenes (depictions)
prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Numbers PR170

Physical Description

1 news line engraving

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.2750.001

Image Dimensions

8.5 x 9.75 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)

Material Type

prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)

Subjects

Park Street (Boston, Mass.)
Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)

Restrictions

Poor

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Park Street Church

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