Snapshots of the Past Wichita Wall Art L sku-13243351890

Snapshots of the Past Wall Art, size L, in Black depicts a bird's-eye view of Wichita, Kansas, with covered wagons on a broad street. The print measures 16" x 20". SKU sku-13243351890; UPC 466137656099. Founded in 2001, the company was the first 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 online customers. It was selected as a vendor for the White House redecoration project in 2008. The company restores archival maps, photographs and prints and makes reproductions with archival paper and pigmented inks, which are intended to last for generations.

Other subjects include old holiday posters and early aerial views of cities. Lithography, an early means of mass-producing prints, was invented in 1796. The Library of Congress began its American Memory pilot project in 1989; it laid the groundwork for the National Digital Library Program, which began in 1995 to digitize selected collections of American cultural history.