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Live oaks & spanish moss – Vintage Wall Art

Live oaks & spanish moss, [187-] — historic photograph
Live oaks & spanish moss, [187-]. 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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Live oaks hung with Spanish moss drew many northern travelers to Florida after the Civil War, and this stereograph captures the gray-green canopy that struck so many of them. Spanish moss is not really a moss but a flowering plant in the pineapple family, and it hangs from branches without harming the tree. Albumen prints mounted on cards like this one were made for parlor stereoscopes, which merged two slightly different views into a single image with apparent depth. The record dates the card only as "187-," but its catalog classification places it in the 1870s, when such views were at the height of their popularity.

Created / published[187-]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880.
SubjectsOaks--Florida--1870-1880. Spanish moss--Florida--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,045 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115290

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