Destruction Of The Tea T-Shirt

December 16, 1773. A Boston dock worker, hands gripped on a tea chest at the deck rail, the moment held just before the chest goes over.

This is the night the colonists called the destruction of the tea — the name "Boston Tea Party" wouldn't be in use for another fifty years. What the Sons of Liberty did that night was direct, deliberate, and consequential: 342 chests of East India Company tea destroyed in Boston Harbor, the act that pushed a tax dispute into a revolution.

Issue 012 honors that moment as American founding heritage — the working man, the cargo, the decision. Rendered in the engraving tradition of 19th-century American newspaper illustration, with period-authentic 1773 attire and the locked Classic Patriot palette.

Part of the Founding Heritage Society sub-series within Classic Patriot. Companion piece to Issue 007 Shot Heard Round The World — Boston in 1773, Lexington in 1775, the years America was made.

Available in Vintage Black, Asphalt, and Brown.

Our t-shirts are 100% combed and ring-spun cotton — substantial in the hand, classic fit, side-seamed with shoulder taping for shape retention. Built to last, made to wear in for years.