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Autumn street with monument, houses and steam rising – Vintage Wall Art

Autumn street with monument, houses and steam rising — historic image
Autumn street with monument, houses and steam rising. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures Autumn street with monument, houses and steam rising in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Autumn street with monument, houses and steam rising

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Autumn leaves line a quiet street here, with a monument rising at one side and houses set back on the other, while steam drifts up from somewhere out of frame. The scene belongs to the harvest season, the stretch of fall that Thanksgiving-era observances were built around in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Small-town streets like this one often held a war memorial or civic monument at their center, so a picture that pairs one with ordinary houses and rising steam captures a community going about its autumn routine. Pay attention to the steam, which suggests a nearby mill, kitchen, or heating works at work.

Original scan3,398 × 2,400 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a33827u

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