Charleston, S.C. custom house / C.C. Kuchel ; P.S. Duval & Co.'s Steam Lith. Press, Philada. – Antique Print
![Charleston, S.C. custom house / C.C. Kuchel ; P.S. Duval & Co.'s Steam Lith. Press, Philada., [between 1850 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/6435a62888d5-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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A window into the past: Charleston, S.C. custom house / C.C. Kuchel ; P.S. Duval & Co.'s Steam Lith. Press, Philada., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charleston, S.C. custom house / C.C. Kuchel ; P.S. Duval & Co.'s Steam Lith. Press, Philada.
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The Charleston Custom House, shown here, was a federal building in one of the South's busiest ports, and this color lithograph presents it as a finished civic monument. Edward B. White is credited as constructing architect, while Ammi B. Young, who later served as supervising architect of the Treasury, arranged and designed the view. The building's construction stretched across decades, with work halted during the Civil War and not completed until the late 1870s. The print was made by P.S. Duval & Co., a Philadelphia firm known for its color lithographs, so it reflects the commercial printmaking of the mid-to-late 1800s as much as the building itself.
| Created / published | [between 1850 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1850-1900. |
| Notes | Edward B. White, constructing architect. Arranged & designed by Ammi B. Young, artist. |
| Subjects | Customhouses--South Carolina--Charleston--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,447 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216892 |
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