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Onondaga County Court House, Syracuse, N.Y. – Historic Print

Onondaga County Court House, Syracuse, N.Y., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Onondaga County Court House, Syracuse, N.Y., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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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Step back in time with Onondaga County Court House, Syracuse, N.Y., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Onondaga County Court House, Syracuse, N.Y.

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Few buildings in central New York carry as much civic weight as the Onondaga County Courthouse in Syracuse, which serves a county named for the Onondaga Nation, one of the Haudenosaunee nations. The caption card does not record when this view was taken, so its date remains unknown. Photographs of county courthouses from this period were often made to document public buildings that housed courtrooms, clerks' offices and official records. Views like this one help researchers see how county government and civic architecture looked in that era.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesRef. copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 112 (E4). This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,041 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148312

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