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Photo: © Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (inv. 717)
inv. 483
Commercial Coffee House, corner of Milk & Batterymarch Sts. Boston. Levi Whitney, proprietor
1840–47
Lithograph
12 x 14 1/2 in. (30.5 x 36.8 cm)
Commentary

This unsigned work was printed by Lane & Scott's. Lane's involvement in the design of the work is unknown.

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Fitz Henry Lane Biography • Lithography: Lane & Scott's, Lith. – Boston
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Lane & Scott's Lithography was a Boston-based firm formed by Fitz Henry Lane and John W. A. Scott. The partnership spanned 1844–48, after both artists had apprenticed for prominent Boston lithographer, William Pendleton. The firm was located at 16 Tremont Temple, Boston and created sheet music covers, book illustrations, advertisements, prints, and town views. Lane left the firm around 1847 or 1848 and Scott printed some works under his own name.

This information has been summarized from Boston Lithography 1825–1880 by Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback. 

map
1837 plan of the City of Boston
Charles Stimpson

1837 9 x 14 in. Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive

Showing Lane's neighborhood while working in Boston. Lane had studios at the intersection of Washington and State Streets, Summer, Tremont and School Streets.

Also filed under: Boston City Views »   //  Maps »   //  Professional »   //  Residences »   //  Tremont Temple »

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map
A Map of Plymouth Village
Lane & Scott Lith.
Frontispiece of " Pilgrim memorials, and guide for visitors to Plymouth Village: : with a lithographic map, and seven copperplate engravings." / By Wm. S. Russell, recording secretary of the Pilgrim Society. ; [Eight lines from Oliver Wendell Holmes]
Boston: : Printed for the author, by C.C.P. Moody, Old Dickinson Office–52 Washington Street., 1851
Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester.
Call Number LML Plym Russ P851

American Antiquarian Society copy of book inscribed: Belonging to J.G. Orton. Bought in Pilgrim Hall Plymouth, Mass. Oct. 10th 1851

Map of Plymouth Village in 1846 signed: Lane & Scott's Lith., Boston

Image: American Antiquarian Society
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publication
The Voyage of the "Jamestown" on her Errand of Mercy
Robert Bennet Forbes
1847
Boston
Eastburn's Press

Link to Google Books.

Also filed under: "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) »   //  Forbes, Robert Bennet »   //  Professional »

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Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)
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Exhibition History
No known exhibitions.
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Impression Information

New-York Historical Society (inv. 713)

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New-York Historical Society, New York

Provenance

New-York Historical Society, New York

The Huntington Library (inv. 717)

Commercial Coffee House, corner of Milk & Batterymarch Sts. Boston. Levi Whitney, proprietor, 1840–47 (inv. 717)
Photo: © Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (inv. 717)
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. The Jay T. Last Collection.

Provenance

The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Related Historical Materials

Lithography

Lane & Scott's, Lith. – Boston
Record last updated May 7, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: "Commercial Coffee House, corner of Milk & Batterymarch Sts. Boston. Levi Whitney, proprietor, 1840–47 (inv. 483)." In Fitz Henry Lane Online. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum. www.fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=483 (accessed on August 24, 2025).