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The City of Washington Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North. – Historic Print

The City of Washington Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. — antique lithograph
The City of Washington Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892.. Antique lithograph 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.)

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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The City of Washington Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Drawn from above the Potomac and looking north, this view places the Washington Monument at the center of a capital still growing into its plan. The print reproduces a composition by C.R. Parsons that Currier & Ives first copyrighted in 1880, and this later edition keeps the same image apart from the sky. The monument was finished in 1884, after decades of stalled construction, and it was then the tallest structure in the city. Bird's-eye views like this one let viewers take in the monument, its surrounding streets, and the river frontage in a single glance.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color ; 64.6 x 94 cm. (sheet)
GenreBird's-eye view prints 1890-1900.Cityscape prints 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesSame image, except for the sky, as drawn by C.R. Parsons and copyrighted by Currier & Ives in 1880; (C&I no. 1237). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1238 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
SubjectsWashington Monument (Washington, D.C.)--1890-1900. Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,074 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176284

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