The Experimental Railway of John Stevens at Hoboken, 1825 – Vintage 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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The Experimental Railway of John Stevens at Hoboken, 1825
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The subject is John Stevens's experimental railway at Hoboken, New Jersey, where in 1825 Stevens, a lawyer and inventor, ran a steam-powered vehicle on a small circular track on his estate, one of the earliest attempts at steam locomotion in America. This halftone reproduces a painting by Thomas B. Craig, a later artist's reconstruction of that event rather than a contemporary view. Halftone was a printing process for reproducing images in books and periodicals, so this print is much later than the event it shows. The caption card gives no date for the print itself.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Halftone photo of painting by Thomas B. Craig. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; New Jersey--Hoboken; BI--WORKS; Railroads--1825; Shelf. Mallett. C-, T- Bigelow, 1849-1924. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133730 |
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