Water Gap, PA. hand-colored postcard of river gorge and road – Antique Print
(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 vintage postcard of Water Gap, PA. hand-colored postcard of river gorge and road. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Water Gap, PA. hand-colored postcard of river gorge and road
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The Water Gap is where the Delaware River cuts through Kittatinny Ridge on the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and this hand-colored postcard shows that gorge with a road running along the riverbank. Views like this were popular on postcards in the early twentieth century, when color was often added by hand to black-and-white photographs. Tourism grew in the region as rail lines and automobile roads brought visitors to the mountains and river. The tinting gives the water and wooded slopes a softer, more painterly look than a plain photograph would.
| Original scan | 3,316 × 2,102 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | img030-A |
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