Hi all,

Have been working on coaxing the return of a talented editor by the name of Shoemaker's Holiday--who is by far WMF's most skilled volunteer at restoring historic etchings. Turns out he's been working on an important project: perhaps someone can help obtain source material.

The subject is Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19159 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01657

As you can see, both of the Library of Congress copies are missing sections of data due to damage. If we can obtain a high resolution scan from a third copy of this etching, it will become possible to assemble a composite of the complete engraving.

(For Wikimedians who aren't US-Based, the Boston Massacre was a key event that preceded the American Revolution. Paul Revere's famous depiction helped spread dissatisfaction with colonial rule).

What we're looking for are editors who to interface with historic societies or libraries that own an original copy of the engraving. Particularly within Boston or Massachusetts, although copies probably exist across various locations in the eastern United States. We're looking to obtain an uncompressed scan of the document on the order of 25MB-100MB. Source credit will be provided to the institution, of course, and the final work might be selected to run on Wikipedia's main page.

Please contact me if you can assist or provide contacts.

-Durova