Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's. – Vintage Print
![Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's., [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8e/8e927fa00c53-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's.
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Wildcat Canyon is one of the narrow, wooded ravines cut into the sandstone bluffs along the Illinois River, and this view looks up its rocky floor toward the water. The Detroit Publishing Company made the large glass negative sometime between 1890 and 1901, when the firm was documenting American scenery and travel destinations. The area did not become Starved Rock State Park until the 1910s, so the photograph shows the canyon before its formal protection.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 18 x 22 in. |
| Genre | Mammoth plates.Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Vertical format. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as enlargement of no. 563. Detroit Photographic Co." and "0563" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0563. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015114. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Canyons. Streams. State parks & reserves.United States--Illinois--Starved Rock State Park. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 814 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-80153 |
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