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[Easthampton from summit of Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Easthampton from summit of Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Easthampton from summit of Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Easthampton from summit of Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Easthampton from summit of Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.]

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Taken from the summit of Mount Tom, this pair of glass negatives looks down over Easthampton and the farmland and river country of western Massachusetts. Mount Tom rises in the Holyoke Range above Holyoke, and in the early 1900s a railway carried visitors up its slopes to enjoy the open views. The two plates were meant to be joined into one wide panorama, a format the Detroit Publishing Company used to present scenery as sweeping vistas. The firm, based in Detroit, sold large numbers of such views to travelers and collectors until its business declined in the 1920s.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19276, 19275. G 7375" on left negative; "G 7376" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037206. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMountains.United States--Massachusetts--Tom, Mount.United States--Massachusetts--Easthampton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68654

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