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On the Ocklawaha River, Fla. – Antique Print

On the Ocklawaha River, Fla., c1901 July 26. — historic photograph
On the Ocklawaha River, Fla., c1901 July 26.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with On the Ocklawaha River, Fla., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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On the Ocklawaha River, Fla.

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Rafts on the Ocklawaha River in Florida set this card apart, with African American workers handling the logs on the water. The Ocklawaha flows through the north-central part of the state into the St. Johns, and rivers like it were used to float timber to mills and markets. Stereograph cards like this one carried two nearly identical photographs that a viewer's stereoscope fused into a single three-dimensional scene, and they were sold widely for home entertainment around 1900. The catalog notes that its caption information is old and unverified, so some details of the scene are uncertain.

Created / publishedc1901 July 26.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsH6434 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Rafts; African Americans--Working; Fla.--O- R-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,475 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133540

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