A Stiff Point"" – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of A Stiff Point"" brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Stiff Point""
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A Stiff Point" shows a dog frozen mid-hunt, holding the rigid pose that gives the title its name, a term sportsmen use for a pointer locking onto the scent of game. The picture dates to about 1902 and comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American landscapes, towns, and everyday life in the early 1900s. It was made as a cyanotype, an early contact-printing process that produces the deep blue tones of a blueprint, and its large size points to a mammoth-plate negative. The print's copyright deposit and its later transfer to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 help trace how such commercial views were preserved.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print mounted on thin mat : cyanotype ; image 43.2 x 53.4 cm. |
| Genre | Mammoth plates.Cyanotypes. |
| Notes | Detroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. H13234. Detroit Publishing Co. no.09670. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,795 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220689 |
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