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The Tontine Coffee House, [New Haven, Conn., 19th c.] – Vintage Wall Art

The Tontine Coffee House, [New Haven, Conn., 19th c.], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
The Tontine Coffee House, [New Haven, Conn., 19th c.], [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the New Haven 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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The Tontine Coffee House, [New Haven, Conn., 19th c.] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Tontine Coffee House, [New Haven, Conn., 19th c.]

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Few buildings in New Haven were as central to the city's commercial life as the Tontine Coffee House. It was financed through a tontine, a subscription scheme in which shares passed to the surviving subscribers, and it served merchants, shippers and travelers as a place to trade news and conduct business. The caption card gives no date for this engraving, but its bracketed 19th-century attribution places it in a period when the coffee house was a familiar landmark of downtown New Haven.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Coffee...; Conn.--New Haven; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,305 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140833

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