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Architectural Plans, Boston City Hall

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

ca. 1850

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: City Hall - School St.

GUSN

GUSN-198772

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Description

These lithographs depict plans and sections of the interior of the Old City Hall building, by architect Gridley J.F. Bryant. Included are images of the basement story, a vertical transverse section and a vertical longitudinal section. Each plate was removed from some other publication.

Details

Descriptive Terms

public buildings
city halls
municipal buildings
floor plans
longitudinal sections
sections (orthographic projections)
prints (visual works)
lithographs

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR187

Physical Description

3 lithographs

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1932-02-19

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.3000.003

Acquisition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

6 x 9 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of W.K. Watkins, 1932

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Bryant, Gridley James Fox, 1816-1899 (Architect)
J.H. Bufford’s Lith (Lithographer)

Material Type

prints (visual works)
lithographs

Subjects

School Street (Boston, Mass.)

Restrictions

fair

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: City Hall - School St.

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