Silver Cascade Catskill Clove – Historic 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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Silver Cascade Catskill Clove comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Silver Cascade Catskill Clove
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Silver Cascade, the waterfall named on this card, lies in one of the narrow ravines, or cloves, that cut into the Catskill Mountains of New York. The card dates to 1861, when stereographs were popular parlor entertainment: two nearly identical exposures mounted side by side, which a viewer's stereoscope fused into one image with depth. The maker is probably James Hunter, an amateur photographer whose work survives in the Charles F. Himes collection, and the albumen print shows the soft tonal range that wet-plate negatives gave to landscapes of the period.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Probably photographed by James Hunter (d. 1896). Title from item. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1860-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,788 × 2,368 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268550 |
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