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Creator	Forbes Albertype Co
Title Statement	Mount Desert views
Subject	Mount Desert Island (Me.) Maine Bar Harbor (Me.) Green Mountain (Me.) Eagle Lake (Me.)
Format (Extent)	1 portfolio (17 prints) : albertypes ; 25 x 30 cm
Description	"17 albertype illustrations from photographs of views on Mount Desert Island, Maine...The plates in these portfolios [the Forbes Co. series] are larger than the average size of book plates and are therefore more commanding. Large individual prints are very uncommon in the United States."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 78
Imprint	Boston : Forbes Co., [ca. 1884]
Note	Printed beneath each picture: "Mount Desert series. Albertype: Forbes Co. Boston" -- In a portfolio with title stamped on cover
Source	Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Hanson Catalog Number	D.A.H.Cat., 1884:9
Call Number	NE2606 F67m
Repository	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library 225 South Street, Williamstown, Mass., 01267
Collection	David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical reproduction
Language	eng
Date	1884
Country	mau
Genre/Form	Collotypes Albertypes

Creator	Forbes Albertype Co
Title Statement	Mount Desert views. Cover
Description	"17 albertype illustrations from photographs of views on Mount Desert Island, Maine...The plates in these portfolios [the Forbes Co. series] are larger than the average size of book plates and are therefore more commanding. Large individual prints are very uncommon in the United States."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 78
Imprint	Boston : Forbes Co., [ca. 1884]
Note	Printed beneath each picture: "Mount Desert series. Albertype: Forbes Co. Boston" -- In a portfolio with title stamped on cover
Source	Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Hanson Catalog Number	D.A.H.Cat., 1884:9
Call Number	NE2606 F67m
Repository	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library 225 South Street, Williamstown, Mass., 01267
Collection	David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical reproduction
Language	eng
Date	1884
Country	mau
Genre/Form	Collotypes Albertypes

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