Georgetown College with Old North Bldg. – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Georgetown College with Old North Bldg., a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Georgetown College with Old North Bldg.
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Old North, the oldest surviving building on the Georgetown campus, is shown here as a line-cut after a drawing by Simpson, printed in J. Gilman Shea's 1891 memorial of the college's first century. Georgetown was founded in 1789 as the first Catholic college in the United States, and Old North, raised in the 1790s, became one of its earliest landmarks above the Potomac. Line-cut engravings like this were a common way to illustrate books of the period, when photographs were difficult to reproduce on the printing press.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : line-cut. |
| Notes | Line-cut after Simpson. From: Memorial of the First Centenary of Georgetown College, D.C., J. Gilman Shea, 1891, Collier. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107560 |
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