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The Doblin Villa [a house], Arkville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. – Historic Print

The Doblin Villa [a house], Arkville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. — historic photograph
The Doblin Villa [a house], Arkville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.. Historic photograph from the Catskills collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures The Doblin Villa [a house], Arkville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Doblin Villa [a house], Arkville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.

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The Doblin Villa is a large house in Arkville, a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and this view captures it as a summer residence set among the hills of Delaware County. Arkville grew up along the Delaware & Ulster Rail Road and the Catskill valleys, where boarding houses and villas catered to city visitors seeking cool air and scenery in the decades after the railroads arrived. The record gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but photographs of resort-era houses like this one were often made for owners, promotional use, or local records. Its survival in the Library of Congress makes it a useful glimpse of how Catskill summer architecture looked to the people who built and visited it.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128040

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