American Fall and Rock of Ages – Antique Print
(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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This historic print of American Fall and Rock of Ages brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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American Fall and Rock of Ages
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Rock of Ages is a rocky ledge at the brink of the American Fall, where visitors could stand close to the falling water. This color view was made around 1898 by the Detroit Publishing Company, which used photochrom, a process that printed a separate lithographic stone for each color over a photographic base. The company sold views like this as souvenirs and travel images, and color gave viewers a richer sense of a famous place than black-and-white photographs usually could. Notice how the pale green water and the dark, wet rock are rendered in saturated tones.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 59003 and no. 68464. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Waterfalls. Rock formations.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,458 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216632 |
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