Portrait Grouping with Tall Wooden Swing

Photographer Unknown

CountryUnited States

MediumCyanotype

Year1895-1900

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Color photograph, Landscape, Figure, Landscape, Marshes, Men: Leisure Time, Seashore

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 cm
Support Dimensions: none


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Most likely taken within the Plum Island area of Newburyport, Mass., this intriguing photograph shows six men posed around an oversized wooden swing situated on a mowed field, probably the island’s tidal marsh. One theory for the height of this swing would be because tidal changes could submerge the structure.

 

print notes: lower margin of photograph torn to fit pre-cut window within small album.

 

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Portrait Grouping with Tall Wooden Swing