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A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto / by George Holland ; lith. & printed in colors by H.R. Robinson, 31, Park Row, N.Y. – Antique Photo Print

A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto / by George Holland ; lith. & printed in colors by H.R. Robinson, 31, Park Row, N.Y., [1847] — antique lithograph
A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto / by George Holland ; lith. & printed in colors by H.R. Robinson, 31, Park Row, N.Y., [1847]. Antique lithograph 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 lithograph of A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto / by George Holland ; lith. & printed in colors by H.R. Robinson, 31, Park Row, N.Y.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto / by George Holland ; lith. & printed in colors by H.R. Robinson, 31, Park Row, N.Y.

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Few buildings in New York carry as much early national history as Federal Hall, the structure this print revisits as it stood in 1797. It was on this site, at the head of Wall Street, that George Washington took the oath of office as the first president on April 30, 1789, and the building served as the seat of the new federal government until Congress moved to Philadelphia in 1790. George Holland drew the view, and H.R. Robinson's shop on Park Row produced it as a color lithograph around 1847, when a fifty-year-old scene was already a form of civic memory. The print is worth a close look for its adjacent streetscape, which shows the lower Manhattan of the early republic.

Created / published[1847]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreD.C.
NotesExhibited in: Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress
SubjectsFederal Hall National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) Government buildings--New York (State)--New York--1790-1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,461 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215943

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