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Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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e was erected at the west end of the State House,as shown at the right of our engraving. It was composed of sixlarge columns, fifteen feet high, and a balustrade hung in frontwith Persian carpets, on which were wrought thirteen roses. Thecircle of the Colonnade measured forty-four feet, and projectedboldly into the main street, so as to exhibit in a strong light theman of the people. Through the central west window of theState House, the President passed to the balustrade, descendingfrom a platform* four easy steps to the lloor of the gallery, whichwas furnished with arm chairs and spread with rich carpets. On this platform was a pedestal, covered with green, supportingthe ligure of Plenty. As soon as the President entered theColonnade he was saluted with cheers, after which an Ode wassung by a select body of singers seated under the canopy on thearch. f~hir engraving was reproduced from the Mass. Magazinefor January, 1790, and the order of Procession from a copy inthe Public Library.
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Procession. Boston, Oct. 49, 1789. AS this town is shortly to be honoured with a visit from the PRESIDENT of the United States:In order that we may pay our respects to him, in a manner whereby every inhabitant may see soillustrious and amiable a character, and to prevent the disorder and danger which must ensue froma great assembly of people without order, a Committee appointed by a respectable number of in-habitants, met for the purpose, recommend to their Fellow-Citizens to arrange themselves in the following or-der, in a 717 s It is also recommended, that the person who shall be chosen as head of each order of Artizans, Trades-men, Manufacturers, &.c. shall be known by displaying a WHITE FLAG, with some device thereon expres-sive of their several callings, and lo be numbered as in the arrangement that follows, which is alphabetically dis-posed, in order to give general satisfaction.—The Artizans, &c. to display such insignia of their craft, as theycan conveniently carry i

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  • bookyear:1882
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Stark__James_Henry
  • booksubject:Dwellings
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Published_by_ye_Photo_electrotype_engraving_co_____
  • bookcontributor:Boston_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:288
  • bookcollection:bostonpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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