[Title page of Richard Miller Devens, Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hndred Great and Memorable Events ... in the History of Our Country, ..., 1878] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Title page of Richard Miller Devens, Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hndred Great and Memorable Events ... in the History of Our Country, ..., 1878], 1878 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/51b62ff34755-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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[Title page of Richard Miller Devens, Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hndred Great and Memorable Events ... in the History of Our Country, ..., 1878] comes to life in this historic print, 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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This is the title page of Richard Miller Devens's *Our First Century*, a popular illustrated account of the most notable events in the first hundred years of the United States. The book was issued in connection with the nation's centennial, when Americans were looking back on the Revolution and the decades that followed. Its title page is worth a close look for its wording, which promised a "descriptive portraiture" of memorable events, and for the lettering and layout typical of illustrated books of the late 1870s.
| Created / published | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Books; Centennial. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158126 |
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