Thomas Johnston (engraver)
Thomas Johnston was an American engraver, japanner, and heraldic painter in Colonial Boston. Johnston engraved the first print of an historical event in the Colonial America and was also the first manufacturer of church organs in the colonies. The pipe organ he built in 1758–1759 for Boston's Old North Church was in use for over a hundred years until another organ replaced it in 1886.
The Old North Church organ, case restored in the 1990s to the 1759 Johnston version
A prospective plan of the battle fought near Lake George on the 8th of September 1755 – 1890 facsimile of Johnston's 1755 original
Johnston's Prospect of Yale College engraving, 1749
A 1768 Jefferys engraving printed in London and based on the 1755 Johnston original
The Old North Church, is an Episcopal mission church located in the North End neighborhood of Boston. The church, which was built in 1723, is the oldest standing church building in Boston and a National Historic Landmark.
Old North Church in Boston in August 2019
Interior of the Old North Church
A plaque on the side of Old North Church describing actions of Paul Revere in 1775
A c. 1882 illustration of Old North Church showing the 1807 steeple that was destroyed in 1954
