Mountain House Catskill – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Mountain House Catskill, preserved in this historic photograph. 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 House Catskill
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Titled for the Catskill Mountain House, the hillside resort above the Hudson Valley, this 1861 stereograph is also tagged in its catalog with subjects about wartime damage and ruined houses in Charleston, South Carolina, so the title and tags point in different directions. The hotel, opened in 1823 by the Beach brothers, drew Hudson River School painters and wealthy summer travelers. The card was made to be viewed through a stereoscope, where its two nearly identical halves merged into a single three-dimensional scene. Its maker is probably James Hunter, though that attribution is not certain.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Photograph probably by James Hunter (d. 1896). · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | War damage--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. Houses--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,801 × 2,341 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268412 |
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