New York City – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of New York City. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Published in the 1872 volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, this wood engraving was one of many city views the magazine ran for its readers. Wood engraving was the main way to reproduce drawings in periodicals at the time, with an engraver cutting the design into a block of boxwood for printing. New York was growing fast after the Civil War, and Harper's, a New York publisher, often used such scenes to convey the scale and bustle of city life. Its place in the magazine makes it a useful record of how the city was pictured for national readers.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 44, 1872. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,091 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148596 |
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