[View looking east from the State House, Boston, Massachusetts]
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Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[View looking east from the State House, Boston, Massachusetts]
1858
Albumen silver print
Image: 17 15/16 × 22 15/16 in. (45.6 × 58.3 cm)
Mount: 21 3/16 × 26 in. (53.8 × 66.1 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on mount recto, BR: Old Boston Mass - Taken from State House Looking East - \ Rare Early Contact Print Actual Size 18 x 23 \ Negative size was 20 x 24 \ Camera Cost $130.00 B
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: View from State House Showing B[illegible, under tape]bor ^Boston Harbor [in Boyer's hand] + City, looking East.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, RC: AS Boyer \ Boston 5-1945 \ Valuable - III[circled] I Σv [underlined] \ Contact Print - very Rare - \ Southworth + Hawes \ Photographers \ Boston \ Mass \ 1st Photographers in Boston
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: View from State House Showing B[illegible, under tape]bor ^Boston Harbor [in Boyer's hand] + City, looking East.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, RC: AS Boyer \ Boston 5-1945 \ Valuable - III[circled] I Σv [underlined] \ Contact Print - very Rare - \ Southworth + Hawes \ Photographers \ Boston \ Mass \ 1st Photographers in Boston
