Editorial comment for this plate:

A VIEW OF SING SING.

THE beautiful landscape which embellishes our magazine this week is from a Carbutt “Eclipse” film negative by Mr. D. F. Fairchild. It is a distant view of Sing Sing from the grounds of Doctor Holbrook’s Military Academy.

“If there is any special charm in this landscape,” writes Mr. Fairchild, “I think it is derived from the foreground and overhanging branches, which, after a good deal of search for the best position to form a picture, I selected for a framework.” His selection of a point of view was certainly a judicious one, and is fully justified by the beauty of the picture.

With the Hudson River and village of Ossining, N.Y. in the background, the foreground shows a tennis court with a game of doubles taking place between four men as a group of women watch. A clarification for modern viewers is in order: the title of this idyllic view does not refer directly to the better known Sing Sing prison but rather the name given by locals at the time to the village of Ossining on the Hudson itself.

The following editorial comment for this photograph appeared in a California newspaper:

The “Photographic Times,” New York, January 16th, contains, besides much that is of the greatest Interest to those who “press the button while we do the rest,” a beautiful landscape, a distant view of Sing Sing, which is worthy the close attention of all who are fond of taking such views.  (1.)

1. The (San Francisco) Morning Call: Jan. 25, 1891: p. 12