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Stearn's Cove, Lake Spofford, N.H. – Historic Print

Stearn's Cove, Lake Spofford, N.H., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Stearn's Cove, Lake Spofford, N.H., [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Stearn's Cove, Lake Spofford, N.H.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Stearn's Cove, Lake Spofford, N.H.

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Stearn's Cove, a sheltered inlet on Lake Spofford in southwestern New Hampshire, is the subject of this 8 x 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between 1900 and 1905. The company's photographers traveled widely to document scenic spots and resort towns across the country, and its views were sold as postcards and prints to a public eager to see distant landscapes. A lake setting like this one reflects the period's growing taste for summer recreation, when boating, fishing, and lakeside retreats drew city families into the New England countryside. The glass negative itself, a gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, preserves the sharp detail of an early twentieth-century view.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30847. 2305" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062680. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds.United States--New Hampshire--Spofford Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71369

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