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Headstone of Joseph Topping, King's Chapel Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated

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  • Photography

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Boston / Tremont St. / King's Chapel Burying Ground

GUSN

GUSN-197292

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Description

The headstone of Joseph Topping is shown in King's Chapel Burying Ground on Tremont Street, indicating that he died on Decemeber 20, 1678, at the age of 23.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cemeteries
headstones (tombstones)
carvings (visual works)
tombstones (sepulchral monuments)
sepulchral monuments
sculpture (visual work)
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 002133
AccessID 4099
Other identifier HNEDID-002133

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8020.001

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Cousins, Frank, 1851- (Photographer)

Material Type

photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Other People

Topping, Joseph, 1655-1678

Subjects

Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)
King's Chapel Burying Ground (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Boston / Tremont St. / King's Chapel Burying Ground

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