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The Old Lovin house, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va. – Vintage Print

The Old Lovin house, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., c1905. — historic photograph
The Old Lovin house, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., c1905.. 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: The Old Lovin house, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than Jefferson's own hilltop mansion, this picture turns to the Old Lovin house, a dwelling in the Monticello area near Charlottesville, Virginia, that the catalogers tied to the former president's surroundings. Thomas Jefferson designed and built Monticello over several decades and died there in 1826. By the early twentieth century, the estate drew steady numbers of visitors curious about his life. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold photographic views of American places to travelers and mail-order buyers, made this large glass-plate negative around 1905, and it preserves a glimpse of the older homes that stood near the famous landmark.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 2644" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018447. 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 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61967

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