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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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OLD SCOLLAY BUILDING. buildings, have made these streets one, forming a large, handsomesquare. Tbis blending of the streets has caused a somewhat con-fusing arrangement of the numbers on the buildings. The view presented of the Scollay Buildings was made froma negative in the possession of J. J. Hawes, the photographer, atNo. 19 Tremont Row. It was made about seventeen years ago(1865), and is probably the only picture in existence of it. There is no portion of Boston that presents a more animated orbvsy appearance than the Scollay Squaie of to-day.
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ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 351 SMALL-POX CERTIFICATE. From the earliest settlement Boston has been visited at frequentintervals by that deadly enemy of the human race, small-pox. Thewhites communicated it to the Indians, and in December, 1633,it made dreadful ravages among them, extending eastward to thePascataqua, sweeping almost every native in its way. Chickatau-bat, Sagamore John and James died of it. Mr. Samuel Maverick,of Winesemet, buried about thirty in one day. It extended as far.south as the Pequots, many of whom died. Among the great na-tion of the Narragansetts as many as seven hundred died of it. In1721, Boston was visited by the small-pox with greater severity

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Dwellings
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Published_by_ye_Photo_electrotype_engraving_co_____
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  • bookleafnumber:354
  • bookcollection:bostonpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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