Statue of John Barry, Philadelphia, Pa. – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Statue of John Barry, Philadelphia, Pa.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Statue of John Barry, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Standing before Independence Hall, this statue honors John Barry, the Irish-born sea captain who commanded some of the Continental Navy's most successful ships and is often called the father of the American Navy. The photograph dates to about 1908, not long after the monument was placed, and it shows how the figure stood in the open ground beside the historic State House. The image is a glass plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold photographic views of American towns and landmarks in the early twentieth century, and it preserves a clear record of the square at that time.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | In front of Independence Hall. G 4114" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070651. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Barry, John,--1745-1803--Statues. Sculpture. Capitols.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 798 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-72226 |
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