A Sylvan stream, Amherst, Mass. – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures A Sylvan stream, Amherst, Mass. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Sylvan stream, Amherst, Mass.
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A wooded stream in Amherst, Massachusetts, is the subject here, and the title's word "sylvan" points to the shaded, tree-lined character of its banks. The picture dates to about 1908 and survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that produced many landscape and town views of the United States in the early twentieth century. The negative came to the collection as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. Its quiet, unpopulated scene offers a useful record of a rural New England setting in that period.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 4071" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070381. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Rivers.United States--Massachusetts--Amherst. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-71971 |
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