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AL AUKA(?) – Historic Print

AL AUKA(?), c1897. — historic photograph
AL AUKA(?), c1897.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 title on this c1897 print, AL AUKA(?), carries a question mark, and the caption card describes only sailboats, so the place name is uncertain. The picture is a photoprint copyrighted by C.E. Bolles and catalogued as No. 915, a format widely used in the late 1890s, when photographic views were reproduced in quantity for a public interested in waterfront and seaside scenes. Because the notes come from old, unverified caption data, the exact location and vessels remain open questions. Sailing craft were a common subject of such views, and the picture offers a glimpse of how boats were photographed at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedc1897.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by C.E. Bolles. No. 915. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sailboats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,244 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144762

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