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Twin Lakes, Wis. – Antique Wall Art

Twin Lakes, Wis., [c1898] — historic photograph
Twin Lakes, Wis., [c1898]. 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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A window into the past: Twin Lakes, Wis., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, is the subject here, shown across two large glass negatives that were meant to be joined into a single wide view. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that issued photographs of American scenery for sale to tourists and railroads, produced many such panoramas around 1898. Its photographers worked with mammoth-plate cameras, which made sharp detail possible across a broad field, so the lake country stands out with crisp shorelines and distant tree lines. The pair of negatives survives in the Library of Congress collection, and the firm's numbering on each plate shows how the company catalogued its work.

Created / published[c1898]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreLandscape photographs.Mammoth plates.Panoramic photographs.Glass negatives.
NotesNegatives form a two-part panorama. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co." on right negative. "10203-2-L" on left negative; "01990" and "10203-2-R" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01990. Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 010203. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds.United States--Wisconsin--Twin Lakes.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80050

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