Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego – Vintage Wall Art
![Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego, [ca. 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e1408ae9e047-L.webp)
(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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This historic print of Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego
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Oswego's harbor light and the earthworks and walls of Fort Ontario appear together here, a pairing that shows how the town grew up around its lake port and its military post. The fort's site at the mouth of the Oswego River has been fortified since the 1750s, when control of the region passed between the French and the British. The Detroit Publishing Company made this view by photochrom, a process that built vivid color from a series of lithographic stones laid over a photographic base. The company bound prints like this one into albums kept as a catalog in its office, so the image was meant for reference as well as for display.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 51333. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Lighthouses. Forts & fortifications.United States--New York (State)--Oswego.United States--New York (State)--Fort Ontario. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 520 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-78954 |
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