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ar114200Design for Governor's Island – Vintage Print

ar114200Design for Governor's Island — historic image
ar114200Design for Governor's Island. Historic image from the Governors Island National Monument collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with ar114200Design for Governor's Island, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

ar114200Design for Governor's Island

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A design drawing for Governors Island offers a rare look at how planners imagined this 172-acre island in New York Harbor, a site that has served as a Dutch trading post, a British colonial outpost, and a long-running U.S. Army and Coast Guard base. Its fortifications, including Fort Jay and Castle Williams, were built to guard the harbor approach to Manhattan, so any plan for the island had to balance military function with its strategic setting. Designs like this one reveal the competing needs of defense, housing, and administration that shaped the island over two centuries. Today the island is part of Governors Island National Monument, and drawings of this kind help explain how its landscape came to be.

Original scan2,240 × 1,806 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi
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