Old Custom House, Monterey, Calif. – Antique Print
(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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Old Custom House, Monterey, Calif. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Old Custom House, Monterey, Calif.
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The Old Custom House stands on Custom House Plaza at the waterfront in Monterey, and it is one of the oldest surviving public buildings in California, dating to the Mexican period in the 1820s. On July 7, 1846, Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag over the town, and the building's history is tied to the shift of California from Mexican to United States rule. This c1902 view was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American towns and landmarks for a wide market. The print is a cyanotype, a blue-toned process that was common for photographs of this kind.
| Medium | 1 photographic print : cyanotype. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1902. |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 14711 - no orig. neg. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Customs-houses; Ca.--M-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,178 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133640 |
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