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Paul Revere - [Four coffins of men killed in the Boston Massacre]

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Print shows section of newspaper column with illustration of four coffins bearing skull and crossbones and the initials of those killed: Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attucks.

Illus. in: The Boston Gazette, and Country Journal, 1770 March 12.

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 654.

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01/01/1770
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Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver
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Library of Congress
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