Images
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The "Court House" in 1751
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Engaving by Samuel Hill, published in the Massachusetts Magazine, 1793
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State Street, 1801, by J. Marston
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Advertisement for Clothing Warehouse in the Old State House, 1849
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State Street, 1851
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Old State House, ca.1898 photo.
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Old State House, 19th c.
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Old State House, 19th c.
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State Street, 1904
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The tower a year prior to restoration, ca.2007
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The Old State House's spiral staircase
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East Front showing the balcony from which the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston took place. Note the lion and unicorn on the roof of the building, the same used in the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, a reminder of the building’s past
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Devonshire Street entrance to State subway station
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Old State House in January 2011
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Old State House in August, 2011
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“How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
That has expelled us and our images . . .
The death of one god is the death of all.
Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world of its own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)