Johnstown Court House – Antique Wall Art
(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
A window into the past: Johnstown Court House, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Johnstown Court House
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The print shows the Johnstown Court House, rendered as a color woodcut and dated 1954 in its record. Johnstown, in the Allegheny foothills of southwestern Pennsylvania, became known nationally after the May 31, 1889, flood, when the failure of the South Fork Dam sent a wall of water down the Conemaugh Valley and killed roughly 2,200 people. A woodcut made more than six decades later looks back on that history, and the medium itself, with its bold blocks of color and visible carved lines, gives the civic building a deliberately solid, monumental presence. The record does not name the printmaker, so the image is best read as a later commemorative view of the city's public architecture.
| Medium | 1 print : col. woodcut ; 33.3 x 49 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1954 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,073 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120562 |
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