AA-2026-B71408
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A New England river runs through a forest in the moment when it has decided to be impossibly blue, the kind of water colour that only appears in Kodachrome slides and convinces you the photographer must have adjusted something. The birch and evergreen mix on both banks suggests late September or early October, the season when New England tourism boards were distributing calendars to prove they owned autumn exclusively. A white rock juts into the current on the left—the sort of geological feature that made people in the 1950s stop their cars and take colour photographs of rivers they had driven past every year without incident. The mountains in the distance are blue-hazed and moderate, the kind that reward a Sunday drive and a picnic. This is the view that justified owning a colour slide camera: proof that the ordinary landscape near your home had always been this remarkable, and you had simply been living in black and white.
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River in Autumn, Northern New England, circa 1950s. 1948–1958. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-B71408. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/river-in-autumn-northern-new-england-circa-1950s.
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year = {1948–1958},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-B71408},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/river-in-autumn-northern-new-england-circa-1950s}
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