Lock and control building on a waterway, black and white photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lock and control building on a waterway, black and white photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lock and control building on a waterway, black and white photograph
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A lock and its control building stand beside the water in this black and white view, a reminder that moving boats between different water levels required both engineering and a staffed station to run the gates. Locks like this raised and lowered vessels in stages, and the small operating houses that controlled the gates and valves were often built of sturdy masonry to match. The image is filed under the Natchez Trace Parkway, a road that follows the route of an old overland trail through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, so it links river transport to the longer history of travel across the region. The monochrome treatment puts the focus on the stone, the machinery and the play of light on the water.
| Original scan | 4,678 × 3,753 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 196879pu |
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