SOUTHWORTH ALBERT SANDS HAWES JOSIAH JOHNSON (Active 1843 1

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SOUTHWORTH, ALBERT SANDS & HAWES, JOSIAH JOHNSON (Active 1843-1862)
View of Boston Common. Oversize salted paper print, 141/2x191/2 inches (36.8x49.5 cm.), flush mounted to a period board. Late 1850s

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A finely detailed bird's-eye view in which the maritime city of Boston was artistically rendered by master photographers Southworth & Hawes. This rich salted paper photograph is apparently unique; the only known existing prints of Boston by this Brahmin partnership were created using albumen paper. In 1872 the cityscape was irrevocably changed when the Polk Street Church (at left) was destroyed in a fire.