Snapshots of the Past Wall Art print L | sku-5283170718

This Snapshots of the Past Wall Art item is a Black framed print titled Saluting the flag in the Mott Street Industrial School, N.Y.C. It measures 17-7/8" x 21-7/8" and is listed as size L, sku-5283170718, UPC 464444842020. The company, founded in 2001, says it was the first to offer Library of Congress images as fine-art reproduction prints.

It reports buyers at over 200 bookstores and other retailers, as well as tens of thousands of online customers, and says it was selected as a vendor for the White House redecoration project of 2008. The prints use archival paper and pigmented inks. Lithography was invented in 1796.

The Library of Congress launched its American Memory pilot project in 1989; it laid the groundwork for the National Digital Library Program, which began in 1995 and digitizes selected collections on American cultural history. The range includes historical maps, photographs and posters, such as holiday posters and early aerial views of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.