ca. 1874
GUSN-202287
Interior view of the Council Chamber of the Massachusetts State House. The room is empty. Books are stacked on one side of the u-shaped desk. An unfurled American flag is propped in one corner of the room (background, left).
public buildings
chambers (assembly spaces)
wastebaskets
inkwells
carpets
office chairs
interior views
hanging lamps
shutters (opening components)
windows
doors
desks
floor coverings
government
albumen prints
photographs
Recto of mount: Council Chamber, State House Boston, Mass.; Verso of mount: [underlined: Council Chamber Senate House Boston] {Gift of Bostonian Society 22 Nov, 1923}
OVP Photo Database Number 74
OVP Number OVP0008
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
22 November 1923
PC001.01.TMP.008
18 x 21.875 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of The Bostonian Society.
albumen prints
photographs
Books
Desks
Beacon Hill (neighborhood)
Boston (Mass.)
Architectural photography
Large section of top left corner and edge of mount missing; mount cracked and brittle.
Item
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