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Navy Yard [Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

Navy Yard [Washington, D.C.] — antique engraving
Navy Yard [Washington, D.C.]. Antique engraving from the Washington DC 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: Navy Yard [Washington, D.C.], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Washington Navy Yard, shown here, sat on the Anacostia River at the southeast edge of the city and was the first navy yard the United States established, in 1799. By the 1840s it was a working complex of shipbuilding, ordnance manufacture, and naval stores, and it was one of the city's major employers. This steel engraving appeared as an illustration in an 1842 guidebook, *Morrison's Stranger's Guide to the City of Washington*, which aimed to introduce visitors to the capital's notable sites. Steel engraving gave such guides crisp, detailed views of buildings and waterfront, so the plate shows the yard much as a visitor of that decade would have seen it.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes1842
SubjectsIllus in Morrison's Stranger's Guide to the City of Washington, 1842 (Toner Collection F198.M86 1842). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Washington--Navy Yard; Shelf. Naval yards & naval stations.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 750 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170799

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