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The Rose of Long Island – Historic Print

The Rose of Long Island, [between 1950 and 1980] — historic photograph
The Rose of Long Island, [between 1950 and 1980]. 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.)

Description

This rare historic photograph captures The Rose of Long Island in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Rose of Long Island

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Its title, *The Rose of Long Island*, sets this picture apart and ties it to Julia Gardiner, the Long Island woman who later became First Lady when she married President John Tyler in 1844, after his first wife's death in 1842. The picture is a photographic copy, made between 1950 and 1980, of an 1840 lithograph by Alfred E. Baker, so it records a print issued several years before that marriage. Its listing under advertisements suggests the original was a commercial piece, the kind printers produced to be sold or displayed, which offers a useful glimpse of how a young woman from a prominent local family could become a public image before her later fame.

Created / published[between 1950 and 1980]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAdvertisements 1840.Lithographs 1840 Reproductions.Photographic prints 1950-1980.
NotesPhotographic reproduction of lithograph by Alfred E. Baker, 1840. Please credit to Museum of the City of New York.
SubjectsTyler, Julia Gardiner,--1820-1889. Tyler, John,--1790-1862--Family.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,324 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187329

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