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Cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash.: [Man reacing toward top of huge fir log] – Vintage Wall Art

Cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash.: [Man reacing toward top of huge fir log], c1899. — historic photograph
Cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash.: [Man reacing toward top of huge fir log], c1899.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with Cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash.: [Man reacing toward top of huge fir log], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A lone man stretches toward the top of an enormous fir log in this view from the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington. Darius Kinsey, a photographer who worked across the Pacific Northwest, made the image around 1899 as part of a body of work documenting the region's timber trade. Photographers of the period often placed people beside huge logs and stumps so that viewers far from the forest could grasp their scale, and here the small figure carries that purpose. The old catalog notes that mention Native people and lumber are unverified, so the man's identity and role remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Darius Kinsey. No. 1219. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wash. (2); Ind. of NA--; BI (Indians); Ind.--Lumber--Wash.--1899; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141584

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