Snapshots of the Past Wall Art Print L sku-13420451512

This Snapshots of the Past Black Wall Art print, size L, depicts a dead Confederate soldier in a trench beyond a section of chevaux-de-fr at Petersburg, Va. The historic image is offered as an 18" x 24" reproduction. SKU: sku-13420451512. UPC: 468784219054.

The company restores historical maps, photos and prints from Library of Congress archives and makes reproductions on archival paper with pigmented inks, intended to last for generations. Founded in 2001, it says it was the first company to offer Library of Congress images as fine-art reproduction prints.

Its buyers include over 200 bookstores and other retailers, as well as tens of thousands of internet customers. It was selected as a vendor for the White House redecoration project of 2008. Lithography, invented in 1796, enabled inexpensive mass production of prints.

The Library of Congress began its American Memory pilot in 1989; the National Digital Library Program followed in 1995 to digitize selected collections concerned with American cultural history.