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The Colosseum, Rome, during Ulysses S. Grant's world tour – Antique Print

The Colosseum, Rome, during Ulysses S. Grant's world tour, 1879 Feb. 20. — historic photograph
The Colosseum, Rome, during Ulysses S. Grant's world tour, 1879 Feb. 20.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Colosseum, Rome, during Ulysses S. Grant's world tour. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Colosseum in this 1879 print is tied to a specific visit: the record places it during Ulysses S. Grant's world tour, which took the former president through Italy after his time in office. Grant reached Rome in early 1879, and the trip drew wide attention in American newspapers, so views of the city's famous sites often circulated as souvenirs of such travels. The amphitheater, completed under the Flavian emperors in the late first century, was by then a ruin that tourists visited to see the arches and tiered seating left open to the Roman sky.

Created / published1879 Feb. 20.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1870-1880.
SubjectsColosseum (Rome, Italy)--1870-1880. Archaeological sites--Italy--Rome--1870-1880. Amphitheaters--Italy--Rome--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161770

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