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Washington County Court House, Machias, Me. – Vintage Print

Washington County Court House, Machias, Me., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Washington County Court House, Machias, Me., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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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A window into the past: Washington County Court House, Machias, Me., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Washington County Court House, Machias, Me.

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Machias, the seat of Washington County in eastern Maine, is the setting for this view of the county courthouse, a building that has served as the center of local legal business for generations in a town first settled in the 1760s. The photograph was made by Watts Photo Shop of Machias, a local studio, so it reflects a community view of its own civic building rather than a distant survey. The caption card carries no date, but its reference to a Dunlop Society courthouse series places it within a broader effort to document American county courthouses. Such images are useful for studying the architecture and streetscape of small New England county seats.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Watts Photo Shop, Machias. Dunlop Society Court Houses. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 83 (C12). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Me.; Courthouses; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,241 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147999

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