The yacht squadron at Newport – Historic Reproduction
(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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The yacht squadron at Newport comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 yacht squadron at Newport
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Newport's harbor, crowded with sailing yachts, a steam vessel, and a scatter of rowboats, is the setting for this lithograph. Newport had become a fashionable summer resort by the early 1870s, and wealthy yachtsmen from New York and elsewhere gathered there each season to race and show off their boats. Currier & Ives, the New York firm at 125 Nassau Street, produced many such views of American leisure for a middle-class market eager to see how the well-to-do spent their summers. The print is useful for comparing the rigging and hull shapes of yachts of the period with the working sail and steam craft that shared the water.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., c1872. |
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| Subjects | Print showing yachts, a steamboat, and several rowboats in a harbor at Newport. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 10,334 × 7,355 px · prints to 34 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4 |
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