A Winter Gallery — American Museum of Photography (SM)
A Winter Gallery — American Museum of Photography (SM)
- L.O. Moore (Harrison, Michigan)
- Michigan Logging Scene with Snow Effect
- Collodion silver (?) print circa 1890, 4.75 x 7.75 inches
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- Established in 1880 as the county seat of Clare county, Harrison became known as Michigan’s toughest town. It was built along the route of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway, and supported 22 saloons in the 1880s– about one for every 90 citizens. This image is one of a series showing lumbering operations and a sawmill, probably operated by the W. H. & F. A. Wilson Lumber Company.
- The snow effect has been achieved by spattering the negative with a fine spray of paint– a technique more frequently seen on winter portraits taken in a studio than on outdoor images like this one. The inscription on the end of the largest log reads “43 logs/7117” The second number indicates the amount of lumber this load would produce in board-feet.
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