Leaving Brighton hotel for the mill-dam. Winter – Vintage Wall Art
![Leaving Brighton hotel for the mill-dam. Winter, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a1/a141d5fc0f3d-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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Step back in time with Leaving Brighton hotel for the mill-dam. Winter, a historic print 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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Leaving Brighton hotel for the mill-dam. Winter
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Winter outings from a hotel to a mill dam, as the title describes, point to a common 19th-century pastime: visitors, often from town, traveled by sleigh or on foot to frozen millponds and dams for skating and sledding. The record gives no date, and the only name attached is Haskell & Allen, taken from an unverified shelflist card, so the exact place, year, and makers remain uncertain. Still, the scene is a useful glimpse of how people spent leisure time in cold months before winter recreation became a planned part of town life. Look at the people's clothing and the way the sleighs or sleds are loaded for hints about the period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Haskell & Allen. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | leavingbrighton hotel for |
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