Boston Farm School, at Thompson's Island, Boston Harbor

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1845

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Harbor Islands

GUSN

GUSN-198434

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Description

This engraving presents a view of the farm school and workers with a hay wagon, as well as the school house and farm buildings. The shoreline and dock can also be seen off to the left.

Details

Descriptive Terms

schools (buildings)
farms
asylums (welfare buildings)
harbors
hay wagons
farmers
hay
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR103

Physical Descrption

1 newspaper engraving

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.2250.008

Image Dimensions

9 x 9.5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston Harbor (Massachusetts) [harbor]
Thompson Island (Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [island]

Record Details

Originator

Mallory, Richard P. (Delineator)
Peirce, Joshua H., 1812-1869 (Engraver)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)

Material Type

engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Other Organizations

Boston Farm School Society

Restrictions

Poor

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Harbor Islands

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