Fort Richmond - Staten Island – Antique Print
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(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Fort Richmond - Staten Island in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fort Richmond - Staten Island
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This chromolithograph shows Fort Richmond on Staten Island, one of the coastal defenses that guarded the Narrows, the strait leading into New York Harbor. The record dates it to about 1880, a period when the harbor's shore batteries were a point of national pride and sat at the center of debates over coastal defense. Chromolithographs like this one used a separate stone for each color, so the print can show the greens of the grounds and the tones of masonry and sky in a way plain black-and-white views could not. The image is worth a close look for how it presents a military site as a scenic subject.
| Created / published | [1880(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880. |
| Subjects | Forts & fortifications--New York (State)--New York--1880. Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,424 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219286 |
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