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Photograph Description: The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. Creator(s): Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, lithographer Date Created Published: Boston : Pendleton, 1830. Summary: Print shows a mob pouring tea into the mouth of a Loyalist who has been tarred and feathered. Behind the group, on the right, is the 'Liberty Tree' from which hangs a noose and a sign 'Stamp Act' written upside down; on the left, revolutionaries on a ship pouring crates of tea into the water. Notes: Title from item. From the collection of Sherman Adams. Subjects: Boston Tea Party, 1773. Punishment & torture--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Tarring & feathering--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. s--1830-1840.