Fort Richmond - Staten Island – Antique Print
![Fort Richmond - Staten Island, [1880(?)] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/44/44c491154c9e-L.webp)
(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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Fort Richmond - Staten Island comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fort Richmond - Staten Island
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Fort Richmond sat on the Staten Island shore of the Narrows, the strait that gives the main entrance to New York Harbor, and the print shows the kind of coastal defense work that guarded that approach in the decades after the Civil War. The date in the record is given in brackets, so it is an estimate of about 1880. Chromolithographs like this one used multiple stone printing stones to build up color, and they were widely sold as views of notable places. Its color and careful detail make it useful for seeing how the harbor fortifications were presented to the public in that period.
| Created / published | [1880(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880. |
| Subjects | Forts & fortifications--New York (State)--New York--1880. Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194481 |
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