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Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark – Antique Print

Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark — antique engraving
Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark. Antique engraving from the State Parks 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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Step back in time with Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark

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The engraving shows Fort Niagara as seen from the Upper Canada shore at Newark, now Niagara-on-the-Lake, looking across the river toward the fort at its mouth on Lake Ontario. The fort changed hands several times during the late 1700s and early 1800s, shifting between British and American control, so the two banks faced each other as rival frontier posts. The caption date is uncertain, so the print is best read as a picture of that border landscape in the years around 1810.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[ca. 181-]
SubjectsEngraving by Strickland. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts...; NY--Newark; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129888

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