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David Beatey Farm, Looking South from Saw Mill, West Hickory Creek, Pennsylvania
David Beatey Farm, Looking South from Saw Mill, West Hickory Creek, Pennsylvania

David Beatey Farm, Looking South from Saw Mill, West Hickory Creek, Pennsylvania

Artist John Mather (American, 1829 - 1915)
Dateca. 1868
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 5/16 × 13 5/8 inches (26.19 × 34.61 cm)
Mount: 14 13/16 × 19 15/16 inches (37.62 × 50.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.502
Signednone
InscribedInscribed on mount recto, bottom, in dark brown pen: "David Beatey Farm looking South from Saw Mill West Hickory Creek Penn Phot by Mather Titusville Penn"
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "12375"
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DescriptionImage of figures standing in a landscape filled with rows of tree stumps. Tall evergreens line the hills in the background.Published References

Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 253 (repro), 348.

Diane Waggoner, Russell Lord, and Jennifer Raab. East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art Washington and New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017), 176 (repro.).

Ernest C. Miller and T. K. Stratton, "Photographer to Oildom," American Heritage 17:6 (October 1966): 38-45; William C. Darrah, The World of Stereographs (Gettysburg, Penn.: Darrah, 1977).  J. S. Schenck, ed., History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., 1887): n.p.
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