In 1906, Fern Bank was part of a ten-picture entry by amateur photographer C.F. Clarke (Charles F. Clarke) that won the Grand Prize in the Fourth Annual Photographic Contest sponsored by Boston’s Photo Era, a photographic journal with a large circulation and reputation amongst amateur photographers. Most likely originally taken the year before in 1905, this vintage carbon photograph is tipped to a deep-green art-paper mount.   1.

1. Fern Bank:reproduced: full-page halftone (flipped): in: Photo Era-The American Journal of Photography: Photo Era Publishing Company: Boston: Vol. XVI, January, 1906: p. 19