COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
5437
Record number:
5437-6
JCB call number:
DC M414 1789- 9b
Image title:
View of the Bridge over Charles River.
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1789]
Image function:
Plate IX; following p. [532]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
9.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
View of a bridge over the Charles River. Includes church, dwellings, wharf, ship, and boats.
Source Title:
The Massachusetts magazine or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment ... Vol. I. For 1789
Source place of publication:
Printed at Boston
Source publisher:
By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ...
Source date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
notes:
The text describes the building of this wooden bridge, the first to link Boston and Charlestown and, at that time, the longest in the United States. The Legislature of Massachusetts passed an act on March 9, 1785, incorporating the proprietors of the Charles River Bridge for the purpose of building a toll passenger bridge over the Charles River which was completed in June 1786. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Cresswell, D. H. American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 516; http://plaza.ufl.ed… (Apr. 2004)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1909.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel
View of the Bridge over Charles River.
