The Detroit news timely topics. Maple sugar time – Vintage Print
![The Detroit news timely topics. Maple sugar time, [between 1915 and 1930] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74435b7fd884-L.webp)
(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 The Detroit news timely topics. Maple sugar time. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Detroit news timely topics. Maple sugar time
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Titled "Maple sugar time" under a Detroit News "timely topics" heading, this view is a 5 x 7 inch glass negative copied from a print, so it preserves a seasonal feature rather than a scene photographed directly. Sugaring is the late-winter work of tapping maple trees, collecting sap as the spring thaw starts it running, and boiling it down into syrup and sugar. The method grew out of Indigenous practices and was taken up by settlers across the Great Lakes region. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views of cities, farms and countryside in the early twentieth century, shows how such rural routines were presented to city readers.
| Created / published | [between 1915 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions. |
| Notes | Photograph of a photographic print by Atlantic & Pacific Photo." Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2992. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 669 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-77339 |
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