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Title	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheet 29-2.
Creator	Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873 (engraver)
Contributors	John P. Morton & Co. (publisher)
Description	Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: large building built in hill and valley; white man wearing loincloth and carrying bow and arrows among indigenous people, possibly setting up sacrificial altar; scene of Boston Tea Party, with crowd of Colonial men witnessing others dressed as Native Americans dumping tea off ship (upside-down); diagram of phases of the moon (sideways); full-length portrait of well-dressed woman, within border of flowers, a horse, and an alligator, and beneath image of ship bellowing smoke near city waterfront and above man pushing horse-drawn plow, signed "Jeremy Bartlett" [?]; man sharpening farm implements next to wheat field; Greco-Roman scene of men gathered near pillars, signed "Hartwell" (sideways); number 29; faded image of leaning tower, possibly of Pisa or of Babel (upside-down); leaf and berries; dark image with white horse; diagram of bird, with body parts numbered.
Subject	Buildings Men Rites & ceremonies Boston Tea Party, 1773 Demonstrations Costumes Moon Women Horses Alligators Steamboats Waterfronts Plows Agricultural machinery & implements Temples Towers Birds
Location Depicted	Boston (Mass.)
Date Original	18--?
Object Type	Wood engravings
Source	12 x 18 in. page in the John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection, University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/morton#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/morton/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library
Format	image/jp2
Ordering Information	For information about the use of these images, contact Gail Gilbert (gail.gilbert@louisville.edu), Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library (http://louisville.edu/library/art/ ), University of Louisville.
Image Number	ULAL Morton Woodblocks 29-2 enhanced
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