SOUTH SIDE. RTAINING WALL. BVILLE GARDNER & DAVIS [handwritten front caption] (1front) [e0614ac1]

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Title	SOUTH SIDE. RTAINING WALL. BVILLE GARDNER & DAVIS [handwritten front caption] (1front) [e0614ac1]
Creator	Gardner & Davis [indicated on front only]
Subject--front	Trees Buildings Lumber Water Towers Utility Poles Trestles Sepia Postcards Rocks Steeples Chimneys Canal Construction Debris Embankments
Description--Front	A sepia postcard featuring the South Side Retaining [sic] Wall. The postcard seems to be capturing preparations for the construction of a possible canal as shown by the trestles supporting the sides of the embankment. A wide ditch houses countless rocks, small puddles of water, and piles of lumber. An industrial townscape is visible on the left and far right of the postcard. Wires from utility poles run across the site. On the left of the embankment, trees grow and on the right of them a water tower is prominent in the far distance.
Stamps	Benjamin Franklin green one cent stamp facing front; upright. Date of issue: 1902.
Coverage--geographic	Baldwinsville, New York
Date Original	1907?
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	3.5"
Source Width	5.5"
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Erie Canal
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 8800F and SilverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS4 and Mac OS 10.5.8. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2011-03-24
Resource Identifier	e0614ac1.jpg
Format	JPEG
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	156138 Bytes
Checksum	1870873886
Height (of Digital image)	645 pixels
Width (of Digital Image)	1000 pixels
Color Space	sRGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 757, Digital Imaging, Spring 2011: Yael Pesahovitz; Zachary Chauvin
OCLC number	827337289

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