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[The Old red mill, Cedar Creek, Natural Bridge, Va.] – Historic Reproduction

[The Old red mill, Cedar Creek, Natural Bridge, Va.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[The Old red mill, Cedar Creek, Natural Bridge, Va.], [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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Step back in time with [The Old red mill, Cedar Creek, Natural Bridge, Va.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Old Red Mill on Cedar Creek, near the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia, survives here as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative. The Detroit Publishing Company produced views like this from about 1900 to 1915 to sell to travelers, hotels and railroads promoting scenic destinations, and the Natural Bridge, a limestone arch long popular with tourists, was a natural subject. Mills along small streams were common rural landmarks of the period, and this one shows a working building at the edge of a well-known resort region. The negative reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8977" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500574. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMills.United States--Virginia--Red Mills.United States--Virginia--Cedar Creek.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74899

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