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Prospect House and Lake Bomoseen, Vt. – Historic Print

Prospect House and Lake Bomoseen, Vt., c1905. — historic photograph
Prospect House and Lake Bomoseen, Vt., c1905.. 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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Step back in time with Prospect House and Lake Bomoseen, Vt., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Prospect House, a summer hotel on the shore of Lake Bomoseen in Castleton, Vermont, is the subject of this view, which the Detroit Publishing Company recorded on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative around 1905. In that period, many lakeside hotels in New England drew vacationers who arrived by rail and stayed for weeks at a time, and the company photographed such resorts to promote travel. The picture shows how a lakeside resort was set against its water and landscape, and it documents a type of leisure that was popular before automobiles widened where people could go.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2264" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018100. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds. Hotels. Resorts.United States--Vermont--Bomoseen, Lake.United States--Vermont--Castleton (Town)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61700

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