New York City - the New Tribune" Building on Printing House Square" – 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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New York City - the New Tribune" Building on Printing House Square" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New York City - the New Tribune" Building on Printing House Square"
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Printing House Square, at the edge of City Hall Park, was the heart of New York's newspaper trade, and this engraving shows the New York Tribune's new building there as it appeared in 1875. The Tribune had been founded by Horace Greeley in 1841, and Greeley died in 1872, the year before the new headquarters was begun. The image ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in May 1875, so it records a building that was then fresh and meant to project the paper's stature. Wood engravings like this were the main way city readers saw new architecture before photographs could be reproduced in newspapers.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 40 (1875 May 1), p. 124. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Bldgs; Newspapers...--Tribune; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,129 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129683 |
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