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Torchlight procession and serenade [for Kossuth] in front of the Irving House, New York – Historic Print

Torchlight procession and serenade [for Kossuth] in front of the Irving House, New York, 1851 — antique engraving
Torchlight procession and serenade [for Kossuth] in front of the Irving House, New York, 1851. Antique engraving from the New York City 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 antique engraving of Torchlight procession and serenade [for Kossuth] in front of the Irving House, New York. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Torchlight procession and serenade [for Kossuth] in front of the Irving House, New York

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Crowds with torches gathered outside the Irving House, a hotel on lower Broadway, to serenade Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian leader who had fought for his country's independence in 1848 and 1849. Kossuth was staying at the hotel during his visit to New York in late 1851, when he drew enormous public enthusiasm across the United States. The wood engraving appeared in *Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion* in December 1851, one of several illustrated weeklies that brought such civic spectacles to readers who could not attend them. The record's details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published1851
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Gleason's, 1851 Dec. 27. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,020 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107612

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