Identifier: americanannualof1911newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Stone marking the original site of the cannon known as the "Old Sow". Shortly after this photo was taken, the bronze plaque was stolen. (Photography)
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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they are—especially after a building has disappeared.Then, if one will look up the history of these places—and makethis a habit—one will ofttimes learn much that is new to him.and would never have known if he had not taken such a view.This is a subject that will give a person plenty to do on awinters night, when he can sit comfortably by the fire. Lookup a history, study it, and you can pick out many places tliatduring the spring and summer you can get to. 46 Do not be selfish and keep these prints for yourself, butmake up a set and present this to the nearest Historical So-ciety. They wil be only too glad to make an addition totheir, ofttimes, meagre collection of prints. Fig. I is not a picture one would look at a second time,except for the title, which gives it a value many times that of adozen landscapes or pictorial effects so often attempted. Itsappearance is just that of an ordinary building, inhabited bynegroes, but it is Norris Tavern, where Arnold was tried fortreason.
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MONUMENT ON HOBART MT., N. J. WM. H. BROADWELL. Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is just a large boulder on the mountain top, near Sum-mit, used as a monument to designate the site of the cannon known as the Old Sow. This cannon is now in front of Washingtons Headquarters, at Morristown, N. J. A short time after this view was taken the bronze plate was stolen.Several arguments have been settled as to the wording on this plate by referring to this photo, showing one value of a negative of this kind. The old forge, represented by two pictures, took me several years to photograph. Fig. 3 shows it as it looked for many 47 years. Water is now over this site to the depth of sixty feet. Fig. 4 shows the exact site of the old forge. This is theplace where the first hand-made nail was made in America.The British often hunted for this place, but it was so well hid-den that they were unable, for a long time, to locate it. One day they came across it, the iron worker quickly covered theforge, and appearing at the door wel

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