Mountain Apple Tree – Historic 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Mountain Apple Tree in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mountain Apple Tree
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The title names a single tree, a mountain apple, rather than an orchard, and the print is credited to photographer William Barnhill. Photographs of individual fruit trees from around 1917 often treated the tree as a subject in its own right, with trunk, branches, and fruit set against open ground, which made them useful both as records of cultivation and as views of the countryside. The record does not say where the tree stood or who tended it, so the picture is best read as a study of one tree from a period when apple growing was a major part of American farming and fruit appeared often in printed views of rural life.
| Created / published | c. 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | Photo by William Barnhill |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,419 × 2,020 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125147 |
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