Snapshots of the Past L Wall Art Print sku-13448700620

Snapshots of the Past offers this Black, size L Wall Art reproduction of an 18" x 24" portrait of Samuel H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, facing slightly left. The image is credited to Underwood & Underwood, Inc., Washington. SKU: sku-13448700620; UPC: 463657510597.

The company says it restores historical images from the Library of Congress archives and makes reproduction prints with archival paper and 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, along with tens of thousands of internet customers. It was selected as a vendor for the White House redecoration project of 2008. Lithography was invented in 1796 and enabled inexpensive mass production of prints.

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