Snapshots of the Past Wall Art L | sku-13276552096

Snapshots of the Past Wall Art in Black, size L, SKU sku-13276552096, UPC 469245697305. This 16" x 20" historic print shows wild buffalo on a sunny slope in Yellowstone Park. The company restores images from Library of Congress archives as reproduction prints on fine-art and archival paper, using pigmented inks.

Founded in 2001, Snapshots of the Past was the first company to offer Library of Congress images as museum-quality fine-art reproduction prints. Its customers include over 200 bookstores and other retailers, along with tens of thousands of internet customers. It was selected as a vendor for the 2008 White House redecoration project.

Lithography was invented in 1796, allowing inexpensive mass production of prints. The Library of Congress began its American Memory pilot project in 1989; that project laid the foundation for the National Digital Library Program, which began in 1995 and digitizes selected collections focused on American cultural heritage.