1903-11-10
GUSN-392914
The image shows a tablet known as the "Boston Tea Party Tablet" located at Griffins Wharf. The tablet commemorates the Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773, when approximately ninety citizens of Boston, partly disguised, boarded three British ships to protest the taxation on tea by throwing 342 chests into the sea. The tablet includes text describing this historical event and features an embossed depiction of ships at the top.
plaques (flat objects)
commemoratives
commemorative sculpture
signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
gelatin dry plate negatives
11151
IMLS Negative Barcode NP025695
B-Series negative 2516-B
1 glass plate negative
PC022
Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917
ca. 1925-03-00
PC022.001.002.001.002.2516-B
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)
gelatin dry plate negatives
Item
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