1855
Folder 5
GUSN-370295
From "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," page 152. M. M. Ballou, corner of Bromfield & Tremont Streets. Vol. VII July to January 1855 [description on page 156]. Woodcut. Page 156: "On page 152 we give a view of this city from the Somerville Road. Charlestown is situated on the north side of the Chelsea River, and its mouth opposite Boston. It is built on a peninsula, extending about one mile in a southeasterly direction, between the estuary formed by the mouth of the Mystic River, on the northeast, and Charles Harbor and the harbor of Boston on the south and southeast. It is connected with Somerville by a narrow strip of land, and with Boston, Chelsea, and Malden by bridges.The population is nearly 20,0000." The page 156 article also contains a brief history of the first settlement of Charlestown, and of Revolutionary involvement and construction of the Bunker Hill Monument.
exterior views
woodcuts (prints)
woodcuts (prints)
1 print; 9 1/2 x 6 inches
The materials in this collection were collected by Anne Booth in the 1970s to early 1980s, mostly purchased at Goodspeed's Book Shop and Haley & Steele.
GC012
Anne Booth graphic collection
2018
GC012.01.08
Gift
Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 (Publisher)
Brown, Samuel E., d. approximately 1860 (Copyist)
woodcuts (prints)
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Brown, Samuel E., d. approximately 1860
Item description from original donor.
Item
Folder 5
Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) was a Boston-based writer, editor, and publisher who co-founded "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" and was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe newspaper (predecessor to the Boston Globe).Samuel E. Brown (died circa 1860) was a Boston-based engraver active between 1840 and 1860. He had known partnerships in the following firms in Boston: Devereux & Brown (1842-44), Brown & Worcester (1846-47), Samuel E. Brown & Co. (1848), and Manning & Brown (1856).
https://bostonathenaeum.org/news/maturin-murray-ballou/
Brown, Samuel E. (1957). In G. C. Groce & D. H. Wallce (eds.), The New-York Historical Societys Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 (p. 88). Yale University Press.
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