The Wyoming Massacre – Vintage Wall Art
(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 historic print of The Wyoming Massacre. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Wyoming Massacre
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Its title places the scene in the Wyoming Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania, where in July 1778 Loyalist rangers and their Native allies attacked colonial settlers and militia. Felix O.C. Darley, a prolific American illustrator, painted the original, and this halftone reproduction was copyrighted by John D. Morris & Co. around 1905, a date noted on an unverified caption card. The episode gained lasting fame through Thomas Campbell's 1809 poem *Gertrude of Wyoming*, which helped shape how later Americans remembered it. Halftone printing like this let publishers spread such paintings widely in books and magazines.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Notes | Halftone repro. of painting by F.O.C. Darley, copyrighted by John D. Morris & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,244 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152385 |
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