Newspaper page with a harbor skyline engraving at top and text columns. Below, an engraved evening street scene shows people in period dress walking past buildings.

Ballou's Pictorial, Boston Evening Street Scene, November 7, 1857

A newspaper page from Ballou's Pictorial, dated Boston, Saturday, November 7, 1857, with a harbor skyline engraving across the masthead and dense columns of text. Below, a wood engraving shows women in long skirts and bonnets and men in top hats walking along a city street past buildings in the evening.

Artist: Unknown
Date: November 7, 1857
Medium: Wood engraving in black ink on paper
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 2937 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1857).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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