Cambria steel works, Johnstown – Antique 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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Cambria steel works, Johnstown comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cambria steel works, Johnstown
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Joseph Pennell drew the Cambria Steel Works in Johnstown in 1917, when American mills were working at full pressure to supply the war effort. He made the picture in black chalk with white heightening, a method that suits the heavy forms of an industrial plant. Pennell's 1925 memoir, *The Adventures of an Illustrator*, reproduces the drawing with a caption recalling that he was arrested for making it on a public road by an official he believed was probably born in Russia. The anecdote points to the wartime suspicion that could greet an artist sketching industrial sites, and the drawing records a works that was central to a city whose livelihood depended on steel.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : black chalk with white heightening ; sheet 17.6 x 25.3 cm. |
| Genre | Miscellaneous |
| Notes | Exhibit loan 2624-L. Exhibited: The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuries of Printmaking, An Exhibition at the Library of Congress, December 1983 through May 1984. Published in: Pennell, Joseph. The Adventures of an Illustrator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925, Limited edition, p. 318, with the caption Cambria Steel Works Johnstown-chalk drawing-I was arrested for making this drawing on a public road by an American official probably born in Russia-1917." Publisher's notes inscribed on verso. Wuerth |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145721 |
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