GUSN-202353
The image is an undated reproduction based on a painting by James Brown Marston, "Old State House, 1801." The text superimposed on the image reads "When Paul Revere was a district nurse, by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne." Browne was a portrait artist and the art editor for the Boston Evening Transcript. The image and text may have been used for a newspaper article.
exterior views
historic buildings
public buildings
capitols
commercial buildings
streetscapes
intersections
collodion prints
photographs
Verso of mount: [twice, circled: 1] Used Boston Trans Jan 21- 1922 [stamped with photographer's name and address:] N. L. Stebbins, PHOTOGRAPHER, 132 Boylston St. Boston, Mass. {[twice:] Gift of Boston Evening Transcript [crossed out: 27 Nov. 1933] 18 Oct. 1933}
OVP Photo Database Number 141
OVP Number OVP0101
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
18 October 1933
PC001.01.TMP.101
13.25 x 17.75 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of the Boston Evening Transcript.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922 (Photographer)
Marston, James Brown, 1775-1817 (Artist)
collodion prints
photographs
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
Browne, Margaret Fitzhugh, 1884-1972
State Street (Boston, Mass.)
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.)
See "State Street in 1801," Bostonian Society, Catalog number: X0288. See "State Street, 1801," Massachusetts Historical Society.
Bottom left edge of print creased; pin holes on all four corners of mount and along edges; mount torn, bottom left edge; finger print smudges on verso of mount.
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