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Poland Spring From the Maine State Building – Vintage Photo Print

Poland Spring From the Maine State Building, c1900. — historic photograph
Poland Spring From the Maine State Building, c1900.. 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 panoramic view looks out from the Maine State Building toward the Poland Spring House, the large resort hotel in Poland, Maine, whose spring water was bottled and sold widely in the late 1800s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued thousands of views of American landmarks and resorts around 1900, produced this long mammoth-plate print to capture the sweep of the grounds in a single frame. Its wide format and linen mounting were typical of the company's souvenir views, and the scene offers a glimpse of how the resort was laid out at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print mounted on linen : silver gelatin ; image 39.8 x 187 cm.
GenreMammoth plates.Silver gelatin prints.Panoramic photographs.
NotesListed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. D21948. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010230. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPoland Spring House (Poland Spring, Me.) Hotels.United States--Maine--Poland Spring.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 690 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79650

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