Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

M. A. Dewolfe Howe

 
9781331300144: Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries (Classic Reprint)

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Bibd s-E ye View of Boston, 1850 Frontispiece Drawn from nature and on stone by J. Bachmann. lithographed by Saiony Major, New York, and published by John Bachmann, Greenwich St., New York. In the Boston Public Library. British Troops on the Common in 1768 82 From a water-color drawing by Christian Bemick made October 1,1768, and now in possession of the Concord Antiquarian Society. Engraved by SidnL. Smith and published by Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. The View shows encampment of the 29th Regiment with field pieces, etc., and was taken from the grove. Recruitino on Flagstaff Hill in the Civil War 58 From a lithograph by J. H. Bufford, Boston, published September 22 1862. In the Boston Public Library. Buying Liberty Bonds at Liberty Court 76 Photographed, 1918, by the International Film Service Co., I nc. The title-page vignette is firom a drawing by Hammatt Billings engraved for the title-page of Sprague s Writings, Boston, 1850. It shows the Old Elm and the IP ond fountain.
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