Sea Serpent #3 – Historic Print
(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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Sea Serpent #3
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Part of a numbered series titled "Sea Serpent," this photograph is one of several prints that the catalog card suggests were made to show a supposed sea monster. The record credits the copyright to W.M. Horton and N.R. Davis of Ballard, Washington, then a separate community on Puget Sound near Seattle, and the cataloguer's note questions whether the image was a fraud. Around 1906, sea serpent sightings and photographs drew wide newspaper interest, and many such images were later shown to be staged or altered. The card's "Fraud?" notation is worth keeping in mind when reading the picture.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Copyright by W.M. Horton and N.R. Davis. Ballard, Washington. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fraud?; Sea monsters; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 985 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139376 |
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