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[Steamer Potsdam] – Antique Wall Art

[Steamer Potsdam], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Steamer Potsdam], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Steamboats 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Steamer Potsdam]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The steamer Potsdam is shown here not as a photograph of the vessel but as a reproduction of a painting signed by Fred Pansing. Because the camera recorded the artist's work, the ship appears as he chose to render her, with the composition, light, and water shaped by his hand. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued this view between about 1900 and 1910, reproduced many paintings and tinted views for postcards and booklets, so the image shows as much about how marine art circulated at the time as about the boat itself.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of painting signed Fred Pansing. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042544. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69699

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