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[Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha, Minn.] – Antique Wall Art

[Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha, Minn.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha, Minn.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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[Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha, Minn.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha, Minn.]

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Minnehaha Falls, on Minnehaha Creek in what is now Minneapolis, is the subject of this glass-plate negative, which the Detroit Publishing Company made sometime between 1900 and 1910. The falls drop about 53 feet over a limestone and sandstone ledge, and the site drew visitors long before the photographer set up his camera, partly because Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem "The Song of Hiawatha" named it. The company's large-format plates, many of them of scenic spots like this one, were sold as views for tourists and collectors. This particular negative is cracked through the center, a reminder of how fragile these early glass supports were.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negative cracked through center. G 4691" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036269. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWaterfalls.United States--Minnesota--Minneapolis.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67820

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