AA-2026-1F66B7
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A sandy bluff rises from a Great Lakes shore in the full confidence of its own permanence, its face striped by erosion channels that have been running water since the last ice age. The dune grass and small trees clinging to the slope suggest this was still considered a picturesque natural feature in the 1950s, before anyone began worrying seriously about coastal retreat. The pale sand face, already scarred and collapsing in places, tells a different story than the one the people who vacationed here were telling themselves—that the geography was stable, that the water line was reliable, that you could build on these margins without consequence. The dark water at the frame's edge sits patient and indifferent to what anyone assumed about it.
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Eroding Bluff with Shoreline Vegetation, Great Lakes Region, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-1F66B7. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/eroding-bluff-with-shoreline-vegetation-great-lakes-region-1950s.
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