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[Monticello from the southeast, Charlottesville, Virginia] – Antique Print

[Monticello from the southeast, Charlottesville, Virginia], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
[Monticello from the southeast, Charlottesville, Virginia], [between 1900 and 1906]. 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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[Monticello from the southeast, Charlottesville, Virginia]

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Monticello, the hilltop home Thomas Jefferson designed and spent much of his life building outside Charlottesville, is the subject here, shown from the southeast side. The photograph is a glass dry plate negative made for the Detroit Publishing Company, which between about 1900 and 1906 sold views of American landmarks and scenery to travelers and to publishers of postcards and booklets. Jefferson, who died in 1826, remodeled the house over four decades, and by the early twentieth century it had become a shrine that drew visitors eager to see the architecture of the third president. The negative's survival in a collection donated in 1949 preserves a record of how the estate looked before later restorations.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 2640 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033852. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsJefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Homes & haunts. Estates. Dwellings.United States--Virginia--Monticello.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67009

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