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View of the federal ediface in New York – Historic Photograph Print

View of the federal ediface in New York, [1789] — historic print
View of the federal ediface in New York, [1789]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: View of the federal ediface in New York, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The title names a "federal edifice," which this etching shows as the former New York City Hall at Broad and Wall streets, later known as Federal Hall. It appeared in the August 1789 issue of *The Columbian Magazine*, a Philadelphia monthly, only months after George Washington took the oath of office on the building's balcony on April 30, 1789. The city hall had been adapted for the new national government, and Congress met there until the seat of government moved to Philadelphia in 1790. Engravings like this one carried images of the new federal government to readers far from New York.

Created / published[1789]
Medium1 print : etching.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790.
NotesTitle from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1789 August, opp. p. 473. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 554.
SubjectsFederal Hall National Memorial (New York, N.Y.)--1780-1790. Capitols--New York (State)--New York--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,369 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122734

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