[Boston as it was before the great fire of 1872] [graphic]. [ca. 1872]

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[Boston as it was before the great fire of 1872] [graphic]. [ca. 1872]

Photographer's display card promoting stereographic views of the city of Boston. Contains nine stereocard halves documenting Boston street scenes most of which were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1872. Includes views of Scollay's Square, Franklin Street, and Washington Street. Card mount is yellow with a red engraved decorative border around photographic prints.

1 display card with 9 stereograph halves ; mount 31 x 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7675657

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Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), -1884

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George K. Warren (1834-1884) was an American photographer active in Massachusetts in the second half of the 19th century. He was based in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1870 and moved to Boston in 1870, where he worked until his death in 1884. In 1858 he began taking photographs of graduating college classes and became known as a prominent class photographer, particularly at Ivy League schools. In the 1860s he published a series of cartes-de-visite of Cambridge, Watertown, Concord, and Lexin...