Statue of Liberty enlightening the world, New York Harbor – Vintage Print
(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 Liberty enlightening the world, New York Harbor. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Statue of Liberty enlightening the world, New York Harbor
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Few statues in the country were photographed as often as the figure on Bedloe's Island, and this 1890 print shows her with the title "enlightening the world" as she looked in New York Harbor, about four years after her dedication in 1886. The copyright line credits S.R. Stoddard, the upstate New York photographer known for his views of the Adirondacks and his stereographs. Stoddard's commercial work helped spread images of the statue, a gift from France, to Americans who had never seen the harbor. The print is a useful record of how the monument was presented to the public in its early years.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by S.R. Stoddard. NOS 2/97. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,022 × 1,280 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109285 |
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