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1858
GUSN-202358
Photograph of an original photographic view from the cupola of the State House looking southwest towards Roxbury. In the lower right corner of the image, the top of the Hancock Mansion is visible.
cityscapes (representations)
aerial views
roofs
gelatin silver prints
photographs
Recto of photographed mount: View From State House looking west by south 1858; Verso: {Bost Soc. Neg #82 Order 24 May, 1933 View from the cupola of the State House looking southwest towards Roxbury [in a different hand:] [text missing]phlet: "Guide-book for Strangers Visiting the Cupola of the State-House in Boston" 1851 is filed in the Boston pamphlet box "19th c. guides and glimpses"}
OVP Photo Database Number 146
OVP Number OVP0093.7
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
1933
PC001.01.TMP.093-7
13.5 x 17 (HxW)(inches)
Copy print ordered from the Bostonian Society.
gelatin silver prints
photographs
Boston (Mass.)
Top of print heavily creased and torn, with sections of print folded back and close to detaching from body of print.
Item
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