Old homestead, Belle Terre, Long Island / Greene, Port Jefferson, L.I. – Vintage Print
![Old homestead, Belle Terre, Long Island / Greene, Port Jefferson, L.I., [1908 July 2] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0f723a746f62-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Old homestead, Belle Terre, Long Island / Greene, Port Jefferson, L.I. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Old homestead, Belle Terre, Long Island / Greene, Port Jefferson, L.I.
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Few houses in this set are tied to a named place as precisely as this one: an old homestead at Belle Terre, a hamlet on Long Island's north shore near Port Jefferson. A. S. Greene, a Port Jefferson photographer, made the view and registered it for copyright under his own name, a common step for local photographers whose views were often sold to residents and visitors. Old farmhouses like this were a familiar sight across the island at the time, and the picture's classification among dwellings suggests it was meant to record a older local landmark as much as a pleasant scene.
| Created / published | [1908 July 2] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H113143 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.S. Greene, Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York. |
| Subjects | Dwellings--New York (State)--Port Jefferson--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 900 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169926 |
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