AA-2026-D8DD19
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A rocky New England shoreline at dusk, the kind of Atlantic coast that appears in holiday snapshots from the 1960s when color film stock first made it possible to prove that water was actually blue and that people had traveled somewhere to see it. The granite shelves drop to a churning sea while a small town skyline sits muddled in the middle distance, close enough to suggest a walk, far enough that you'll understand why no one bothers. The light is that particular end-of-day clarity that existed before development spread inland, when a town's handful of steeples and a few low buildings amounted to a visible settlement rather than a sprawl. Someone stood here with a camera—likely a color slide camera—and framed the rocks and the roiling water as proof of a place visited and a moment captured, which is exactly what a tourist does when the moment itself has become the primary object of the trip.
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Rocky Coastline with Distant Town, Late Afternoon, circa 1960s. 1955–1975. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-D8DD19. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/rocky-coastline-with-distant-town-late-afternoon-circa-1960s.
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year = {1955–1975},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-D8DD19},
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