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TITLE:  The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in E211 .A452 vol. 4, no. 2 [Rare Book RR]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-45554 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston.

MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1770]

NOTES:

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Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other wounded, two of them mortally.

Illus. in: A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, ... observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe. Printed by order of the town of Boston. London : Reprinted for E. and C. Dilly, and J. Almon, 1770, frontispiece.

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 247.

SUBJECTS:

Boston Massacre, 1770.
Massacres--Massachusetts--Boston--1770.
Soldiers--British--Massachusetts--Boston--1770.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

FORMAT:

Book illustrations 1770.
Frontispieces 1770.
Engravings 1770.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45748 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45748

CONTROL #:  2004670035



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