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[Genesee River, Mt. Morris, high banks, New York] – Vintage Print

[Genesee River, Mt. Morris, high banks, New York], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Genesee River, Mt. Morris, high banks, New York], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 stretches of the Genesee River are as dramatic as the high banks at Mount Morris, where the water has cut deep into layers of rock and left steep walls rising sharply above the current. The spot lies in what is now Letchworth State Park, a preserve that earned the gorge its nickname, the Grand Canyon of Western New York. The negative is one of many the Detroit Publishing Company made in the early 1900s, when its photographers traveled the country recording scenic places for railroads and travel publishers. It shows the valley much as tourists of that era would have seen it.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. In Letchworth State Park. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032137. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsValleys.United States--New York (State)--Genesee River.United States--New York (State)--Mount Morris.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65799

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