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Lower post, Fort Snelling, Minn. – Antique Print

Lower post, Fort Snelling, Minn., c1908. — historic photograph
Lower post, Fort Snelling, Minn., c1908.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Lower post, Fort Snelling, Minn. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Lower post, Fort Snelling, Minn.

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Fort Snelling sits on a bluff where the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers meet, and this view of its lower post catches the place as it looked around 1908, when the Detroit Publishing Company was documenting American scenery and landmarks for sale as photochrom prints. Built in the 1820s by the U.S. Army, the fort guarded the northern frontier and the fur trade, and by the early twentieth century it had become a quieter installation, its older stone buildings a reminder of the frontier army's early days. The glass negative, made on an 8 by 10 inch plate, preserves the detail that the company's color reproductions later drew on.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4701" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070628. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsForts & fortifications.United States--Minnesota--Fort Snelling.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72205

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