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Details of front steps – Historic Reproduction

Details of front steps, [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860] — historic photograph
Details of front steps, [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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The title points to a single architectural feature, the front steps of a building, photographed up close rather than as part of a full street scene. Early photographers of the early 1850s often turned to doorways, stonework and similar subjects because they held still during the long exposures of the wet collodion glass-plate process, which had only recently made sharp, repeatable negatives practical. The caption card behind this record is unverified, so the exact building, location and photographer remain unconfirmed. Close views like this one still reward careful looking, since wear on the stone treads and the joins in the masonry show how a structure was used and maintained over time.

Created / published[between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,166 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159726

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