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Cortland Street Ferry – Historic Photograph Print

Cortland Street Ferry, 1908 — historic print
Cortland Street Ferry, 1908. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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Cortland Street Ferry comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The ferry landing at Cortland Street, on the Lower Manhattan waterfront, is the subject here, rendered with the soft, wash-like tones that make this print stand apart from Pennell's line work. Joseph Pennell, an American illustrator and printmaker who spent much of his career recording city life and industry, made this aquatint in 1908. The technique builds tone through rosin dust on the plate rather than through hard lines. This is the second state of the plate, so Pennell reworked it after early proofs, a detail worth checking when comparing impressions. The date and other details come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published1908
Medium1 print : aquatint.
NotesAquatint by Joseph Pennell. 2nd state. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145864

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