[River view with factory] – Historic Reproduction
![[River view with factory], [ca. 1857] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f35c55ba827c-L.webp)
(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 rare historic drawing captures [River view with factory] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A riverside factory gives this Pennsylvania watercolor its title, and the building sits at the center of the view rather than in the background. Dated to about 1857, it reflects a decade when rivers across the state powered mills, forges, and textile works, and when artists increasingly recorded industry alongside traditional landscape. The painting comes from the Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress, and its pairing of river and factory is worth noticing as a record of how working buildings and open countryside once shared the same valleys.
| Created / published | [ca. 1857] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1850-1860.Landscape drawings American Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Factories--Pennsylvania--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,633 × 3,680 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219553 |
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