Whitefish and McGregor's Bay from Mt. Arabella – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Whitefish and McGregor's Bay from Mt. Arabella, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Whitefish and McGregor's Bay from Mt. Arabella
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Four glass plate negatives, arranged left to right, combine into one sweeping view of Whitefish Bay and McGregor's Bay as seen from Mount Arabella in northern Ontario. The panorama dates to about 1904 and was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of scenery and resorts that it sold to the public and promoted to railway travelers. Its commercial purpose shaped the composition, which emphasizes open water, distant shorelines, and the layered ridges of the surrounding hills. The format also shows how early photographers stitched wide scenes together from separate exposures, a technique that let viewers take in landscapes too broad for one plate.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 4 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-06745, 06744, 06743, 06742. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010832. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Bays. Mountains.Canada--Ontario--Whitefish Bay. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,677 × 3,797 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220507 |
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