Early Pioneers on the Blue Ridge – 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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A window into the past: Early Pioneers on the Blue Ridge, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Early Pioneers on the Blue Ridge
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Rather than a view of the Blue Ridge itself, this halftone reproduces a painting by Frederic Remington, the illustrator best known for scenes of the American West, and its caption card points to mountain men, the trappers and frontiersmen of the early 1800s. F.H. Wellington engraved the plate, which ran in the November 1901 issue of *Century Magazine* on page 93, when halftone reproduction had made magazine illustration a common way to carry paintings to a wide readership. The title and subject labels come from an old caption card and have not been verified, so the scene is best read as Remington's interpretation of frontier life rather than a documented record of a specific place.
| Created / published | 1photomechanical print : halftone. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1901 |
| Subjects | Halftone plate engraved by F.H. Wllington, of painting by Frederic Remington. Illus. in: Century Magazine, 1901 Nov., p. 93. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--WORKS; West--Mountain men; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,299 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129733 |
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