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[The Upper lake, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Upper lake, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[The Upper lake, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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[The Upper lake, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.]

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The Upper Lake at Magnolia Cemetery, a landscaped waterway among the graves on Charleston's northern edge, is the focus of this view. Magnolia opened in 1850 in the rural cemetery style, which set burial grounds among ponds, winding paths, and old trees as places for quiet reflection. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that photographed American towns and scenery around 1900 to 1920, made the large glass negative, so the image records how a Southern cemetery was presented to visitors in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7872" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500321. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds. Cemeteries.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74720

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