Irish morning scene. Mud Tunnel, e. portal – Vintage Print
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Irish morning scene. Mud Tunnel, e. portal comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Irish morning scene. Mud Tunnel, e. portal
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The eastern portal of a tunnel gives this view its focus, a dark opening cut into the hillside. It comes from a photograph album by Jedediah Hotchkiss, the Staunton, Virginia, mapmaker who worked as a Confederate topographer during the Civil War, and it documents routes running from near Staunton toward Huntington, West Virginia. In 1872 railroads were being pushed through rugged Appalachian country, so views like this recorded both the engineering and the mountain landscape around it. The albumen print shows the soft tonal range typical of photographs from the 1870s.
| Created / published | [1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virginia, to Huntington, West Virginia: p. 49, no. 91. Title from item. Transfer from Manuscript Division; 1979. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers. |
| Subjects | Dwellings--Virginia--1870-1880. Mountains--Virginia--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,101 × 4,891 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226056 |
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