View on Staten Island - near Fort Richmond – Antique Print
![View on Staten Island - near Fort Richmond, [1880(?)] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/742e9c055eaf-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of View on Staten Island - near Fort Richmond. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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View on Staten Island - near Fort Richmond
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This color view is set near Fort Richmond on the northwestern shore of Staten Island, where earlier fortifications overlooked the entrance to New York Harbor. The image is a chromolithograph, a print made by layering color from several lithographic stones, a process that was popular for scenic views in the 1870s and 1880s. Its date is recorded only as approximately 1880, so it likely reflects how the island's harbor-side landscape was pictured in that period, when coastal defenses and growing residential communities were reshaping the shoreline.
| Created / published | [1880(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880. |
| Subjects | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219284 |
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