Night scene at a junction – Historic Print
(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 window into the past: Night scene at a junction, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Night scene at a junction
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Set at a junction under a moonlit sky, this print turns a railroad scene into a night view, which sets it apart from the more typical daytime pictures of trains. Currier & Ives printed it in New York at 115 Nassau Street around 1885, when the firm's inexpensive color prints reached households across the country. Railroads were then reshaping American towns and travel, and a scene like this shows how the lines had become part of life well after dark. Chromolithography built color from a series of stone impressions, so the glow of moonlight is worth looking at closely.
| Created / published | New York : Printed in colors by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St., c1885. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 2002Q U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyright 1885, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4861 |
| Subjects | Night--1870-1880. Railroads--1870-1880. Moonlight--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176110 |
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