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Rock outcrop above river with small shelter and man – Vintage Wall Art

Rock outcrop above river with small shelter and man — historic image
Rock outcrop above river with small shelter and man. Historic image from the Jefferson collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Rock outcrop above river with small shelter and man

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A rock outcrop rises above the river here, with a small shelter tucked near its edge and a lone man standing in the scene. The man gives a sense of scale against the stone and water, a common device in American landscape photography of the period, when travelers and surveyors recorded rugged terrain. The record does not name the exact site, and "Jefferson" is a label shared by several American places, so the picture is best read as a view of a riverside landscape and the modest human presence within it.

Original scan3,000 × 2,478 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference00156u

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