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1855
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
GUSN-198381
This newspaper page shows a detailed picture of the Ruggles Printing Press at the top of the page with the words "Ruggles Patent" below. At the bottom of the page, there is an exterior view of S.P. Ruggles Power Press Man'g Co., Electrotyping, Printing & Engraving with a busy street scene. The exterior view shows a view down the next street with "Birth Place of Franklin" on one of the buildings.
printers (people)
printing presses
manufactories
streetscapes
carriages (vehicles)
engravers (printmakers)
electrotyping (platemaking)
exterior views
historic sites
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR251
1 news line engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.3550.023
14 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Plumer, Jacob P., b. 1819 (Engraver)
Ballou's Pictorial (Publisher)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Ruggles, S. P.
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
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