Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783
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On November 25, 1783, the last British troops left Manhattan, ending seven years of occupation after the Revolutionary War, and this wood engraving marks that day. Issued from a Chambers Street office in 1883, it was made a century later as a commemorative piece, which is why its scene reads as a retrospective view rather than an eyewitness record. The subjects listed in its record stress the departing British and the American flags, the two sides of a moment that became known as Evacuation Day. Its hand coloring was common in illustrated war histories of the period, and it shows how Americans in the 1880s chose to remember the city's return to Patriot control.
| Created / published | New York : Issued at the office of Pictorial War Record, 12 Chambers Street, c1883 November 30. |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Wood engravings Hand-colored 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. Library has two impressions. DLC |
| Subjects | Arrivals & departures--British--New York (State)--New York--1780-1790. Flags--American--1780-1790. Evacuation Day, New York, N.Y., 1783. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,167 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176653 |
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