[Oneida County] Court House, [Utica, N.Y.; entrance front, angle view]

Share

This photogravure shows the Oneida County Courthouse in Utica, New York, from an angled view of its entrance front, a vantage that lets the viewer take in both the façade and the building's massing. Photogravure was a fine-line photomechanical process used widely from the late 1800s into the early 1900s to reproduce photographs in books and illustrated publications, so the print likely belongs to that era of civic architecture surveys. County courthouses of that period were meant to project the authority of local government, and their entrances were often the most deliberately ornamented part of the design. The record does not give a date, so the exact year of the view remains unconfirmed.

More from the Courthouses collection

Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.