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Bucket Line from Quarry to Crusher at Split Rock, near Syracuse, N. Y.

ca. 1910
Not on view
From Birmingham to Wilkes-Barre and beyond, souvenir postcards celebrated new construction and natural bounty. Tunnel and quarry scenes were local touchstones in the early twentieth century, exchanged in much the same way as seaside pictures or mountain views. This and many other examples hail from the archive of photographer Walker Evans, who avidly collected all manner of photolithographic cards. The industrial scenes he favored deploy a frontal style and a frank economy of means. Like his own photographs, they record a vernacular American idiom with unvarnished regard.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bucket Line from Quarry to Crusher at Split Rock, near Syracuse, N. Y.
  • Date: ca. 1910
  • Medium: Photomechanical print
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Walker Evans Archive, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.264.10.94
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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