View of Boston from the cupola of the New State House (also known as the Massachusetts State House) showing Boston Common and the Public Garden at center left and the Charles River in the right background, Massachusetts

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

Date:

1863 - ca. 1887

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.2 x 22.9 cm secondary support: 26.4 x 35.5 cm sheet: 15.4 x 22.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:0038:030

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered and imprinted - in typescript, in the negative, l.c.: "No. 26. WEST, FROM STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS." labelled and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, l.c.: with title [double black line over and under text] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "29" [sideways]

Location:

Boston; Massachusetts; United States;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

river
chimneys (architectural elements)
towers (building divisions)
capitol
churches
row houses
office buildings
steeples
commercial buildings
parks (recreation areas)
mercantile buildings
urban landscape
roof-tops

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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