Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It — James Wallace Black. Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, 1860. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

by James Wallace Black

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Artist: James Wallace Black (American, Francestown, New Hampshire 1825–1896 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Date: 1860
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 18.5 x 16.7 cm (7 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.), irregularly trimmed Mount: 20.3 x 17 cm (8 x 6 11/16 in.), irregularly trimmed
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.87

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