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Florida-- the shell mounds--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art

Florida-- the shell mounds--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1886. — historic photograph
Florida-- the shell mounds--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1886.. Historic photograph from the Niagara Falls 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 Florida-- the shell mounds--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Florida-- the shell mounds--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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Shell mounds on Fort George Island, near the mouth of the St. Johns River on Florida's northeast coast, are the subject here, a long way from the Niagara cataracts this board is named for. The heaps were built up over generations by earlier Native peoples who discarded oyster, clam and other shells after meals, and such middens can rise into long, low ridges that last for centuries. Photographer George Barker, working in Niagara Falls, New York, issued this stereo card around 1886, when parlor audiences bought such views to see distant places in three dimensions through a stereoscope.

Created / publishedNiagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1886.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890.
SubjectsMounds (Landforms)--Florida--Fort George Island--1880-1890. Shells (Anatomy)--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,196 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115143

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