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Designs for store fronts / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York. – Vintage Print

Designs for store fronts / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York., [published 1865] — antique lithograph
Designs for store fronts / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York., [published 1865]. 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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A window into the past: Designs for store fronts / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Designs for store fronts / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York.

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Plate 36 of the Architectural Iron Works' 1865 *Illustrations of Iron Architecture* shows three storefront designs, numbered 42, 46, and 48, in color lithograph. Cast iron let builders hang slender columns, deep cornices, and wide plate-glass windows on a masonry building, and the firm offered such fronts from catalog patterns. Lithographs like this one, printed by the New York firm Sarony, Major & Knapp, helped make these fronts a familiar feature of the city's commercial streets in the 1860s.

Created / published[published 1865]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1860-1870.Elevations 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Illustrations of iron architecture, made by the Architectural Iron Works of the city of New York. New York : Baker & Godwin, printers, 1865, pl. 36. No. 42, no. 48, and no. 46.
SubjectsArchitectural Iron Works (Firm)--Products--1860-1870. Industrial buildings--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,434 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216880

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