Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 175
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(RHODE ISLAND.) J.H. Daniels, lithographer; after E. Ackermann. Street view of Scholfield's Commercial College. Tinted lithograph, 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches to sight; wear including closed tears, irregular filled area to the center-right, light staining. Not examined out of frame. Boston, circa 1864-1866

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A view of a business school offering instruction in writing, book-keeping, commercial law, surveying, engineering, mechanical drawing and more. The fellow tenants of their building in Providence are also shown in detail, as well as a busy sidewalk full of pedestrians. The school began running regular newspaper advertisements from this address with similar text in 1864; they moved to a new address in September 1866.