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Record group: Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944 (National Archives Identifier: 398)Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index, compiled ca. 1936 - ca. 1942 (National Archives Identifier: 518261)
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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [1] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.
In 1770, Pelham's engravement, The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre, depicted the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. He lent a copy to Paul Revere, who copied it and produced his own engraving from it. Because Revere's version was advertised for sale three weeks after the massacre and a week before Pelham's version went on sale ...
Credit: Paul Revere (1770) Paul Revere's 1770 engraving, depicting the Boston Massacre This page was last edited on 30 July 2012, at 19:11 (UTC). Text is ...
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Engraving of the Boston Massacre Garrick initiated, drawn by Paul Revere. During the evening of March 5, 1770, a drunk Edward Garrick and his fellow wigmaker's apprentice Bartholomew Broaders were among a crowd of local youth taunting and throwing snowballs at [8] John Goldfinch, a captain-lieutenant of the British Army. [9]
Original – An engraving by Paul Revere depicting a white-washed, pro-American version of the Boston Massacre. This image (or a cropped version) is commonly included in history textbooks. Reason Iconic, high resolution and quality Articles in which this image appears Boston Massacre, Paul Revere, +2 FP category for this image