Scenery on Deadwood Road to Sturgis – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Scenery on Deadwood Road to Sturgis, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Scenery on Deadwood Road to Sturgis
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Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this 1888 view shows the road linking Deadwood with Sturgis, two mining-era towns that grew up after gold was discovered in the region in the 1870s. Roads and streams are the subjects named in the record, so the image likely shows a rural route beside water, a common sight in a landscape that supplied timber and mining traffic. John C. H. Grabill, the photographer whose collection holds the print, documented Dakota Territory scenery in these years. The print was submitted as a copyright deposit, which is one reason so many of these landscapes survive today.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890.Landscape photographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection. |
| Subjects | Roads--South Dakota--1880-1890. Streams--South Dakota--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151175 |
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