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[Fort Levett and Ram. I. Ledge from the Ottawa, Cushing's Island, Maine] – Historic Print

[Fort Levett and Ram. I. Ledge from the Ottawa, Cushing's Island, Maine], c1904. — historic photograph
[Fort Levett and Ram. I. Ledge from the Ottawa, Cushing's Island, Maine], c1904.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Fort Levett and Ram. I. Ledge from the Ottawa, Cushing's Island, Maine] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Fort Levett and Ram. I. Ledge from the Ottawa, Cushing's Island, Maine]

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Casco Bay's Cushing's Island, off Portland, Maine, is the setting here, and the view looks across the water toward Fort Levett and the ledge that carries the Ram Island light. Fort Levett was one of the coastal batteries built to guard Portland Harbor in the decades after the Civil War, when the United States was modernizing its seacoast defenses. The Detroit Photographic Company, which issued copyrighted views of American scenery for travelers around the turn of the twentieth century, made pictures like this one as souvenirs of resort destinations. The caption card's details about the photographer's vantage point and date have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCopyright by the Detroit Photographic Co. No. 017999. No original negative. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts; Maine--Cushing's Island; Shelf.; Lighthouses; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136699

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