rppc Adirondacks H. M. Beach NYC Engine during the big storm

rppc Adirondacks H. M. Beach NYC Engine during the big storm (image 1/1)
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Up for auction I have a vintage Beach real photo postcard New York Central Engine during the big storm.. Henry Beach (1863-1943) was a prolific and accomplished upstate New York photographer who documented the North Country during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Photo postcards were his specialty. Although his postcard pictures were taken to sell wholesale to hotel managers, shop owners, and other retail merchants, they are not just mass-produced stylized, pretty pictures. Beside the bubbling brooks and shady woodland paths are factory boomtowns and paper mills belching pollution. Beach photographed dandy visitors at play as well as manual laborers sweating in the forest, logging camps, factories mines and construction sites. Images of "great camps" sit next to modest abodes, small stores and family-owned resorts. Pictures of trains in scenic surroundings give way to mangled wrecks after tragic railroad accidents. In addition to standard view cards, Beach produced montages, fantasy and advertisement postcards - serious visual commentary as well as lighthearted picture play. Henry was a local, an insider to the world he photographed, a person intimate with the regions people and geography. It was from that position that he photographed upstate New York. He had little formal education and was not professionally trained read more
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