Bunker Hill Monument in 1837

File name: CHA32A6

 

Local identifier: CHA-32-A6

 

Title: Bunker Hill Monument in 1837

 

Creation date: 1837

 

Description: Bunker Hill Monument. Work remained suspended until the Ladies Fair in 1840, and five thousand dollar gifts from two prominent citizens started the work again. The two and a half ton capstone was set in place in July, 1842. Reproduced from a drawing in Boston Athenaeum by E. H. Cameron in "Of Yankee Granite", 1953.

 

Genre: Lantern slides

 

Subjects: Charlestown, Massachusetts; Bunker Hill Monument

 

Provenance: No additional source information provided

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Charlestown Branch

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