Midnight ride of Paul Revere – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Midnight ride of Paul Revere, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Midnight ride of Paul Revere
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Rather than a record of the event itself, this print reproduces a painting by William R. Leigh, an American artist known for western and historical scenes, that shows Paul Revere riding through the night to warn colonial militia that British troops were marching toward Concord. Revere's ride on April 18, 1775, became national legend largely through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, and painters returned to the subject often. The photoprint was made by Peter A. Juley & Son of New York, a firm that photographed artworks for reproduction, and its date of about 1953 comes from a caption card that the record marks as unverified.
| Created / published | c1953 Dec. 14. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Gu 22493 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint by Peter A. Juley & Son, N.Y.C., of painting by W.R. Leigh. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,058 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160334 |
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