View from Mount Holyoke – Historic Print
(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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View from Mount Holyoke comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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View from Mount Holyoke
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The view from Mount Holyoke, the wooded ridge rising above the Connecticut River valley in western Massachusetts, is the subject here, and this lithograph is plate 6 in *Scenery of Massachusetts*, a book of views drawn from the geological report of Professor Edward Hitchcock. Hitchcock served as the state geologist, and his survey work gave the illustrated volume its scientific framing. The print was made by Thayer's lithography firm in Boston in 1842 and published in Northampton by J. H. Butler. Its pairing of scenic views with geological study reflects the period's interest in the landscape as both a natural and a cultural subject.
| Created / published | Boston : Thayer's Lith., 1842. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1840-1850.Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Scenery of Massachusetts ... from the geological report of Prof. Hitchcock. Northampton : Published by J. H. Butler, 1842, plate 6. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Holyoke, Mount (Mass.)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,043 × 4,129 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-211483 |
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