A year ago and to-day – Vintage Wall Art
(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 year ago and to-day comes to life in this antique engraving, 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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Its title sets up a before-and-after comparison, "A year ago and to-day," and the record links the scene to metalworking in the United States and to Civil War campaigns. It ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on April 28, 1866, less than a year after Appomattox, when many shops and foundries that had supplied the war were turning toward peacetime work. *Frank Leslie's* was a popular weekly known for its lively wood engravings, and the pairing of past and present in a single picture would have spoken directly to readers who had lived through the war and were adjusting to its end.
| Created / published | 1866 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 22, no. 552 (1866 Apr. 28), p. 89. |
| Subjects | Metalworking--United States--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,318 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-203279 |
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