File:Costumed interpreter with a mule on the canal towpath at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 20.tiff

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(6,619 × 5,182 pixels, file size: 98.13 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Author
Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
Alternative names

Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
Work location
United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5044454
Description
English: Pic of Costumed Interpeter with boat, at Lock 20 (Great Falls Tavern) on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.


Notes: The LoC's original scan of the digital transparency is flipped backwards (which has been fixed here).
Also the posing in the photo is strange.

  • The man on the lock gate and the position of the mules indicate the boat is going upstream, but the man at the tiller should be at the stern, not the bow as seen here.
  • There is no need for the man to have his hand on the valve handle. Once the wickets are open to fill the lock, there is no need to touch the handle until the gates are almost all the way open. Then one closes the wickets so the iron valve doesn't hit the canal masonry.
  • There is also a man on the stern blowing a horn, which is strange, since normally canallers blew the horn to warn of the boat approaching the lock; while in the lock, the horn blowing serves no purpose.
  • Mules are not hitched up. Hitch is lying on ground.
  • Boat is the old Canal Clipper boat, scrapped since the time of this photo.
Date between 1980 and 2006
Medium 1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
Accession number
  • LC-DIG-highsm-15394 (digital file from original)
  • LC-HS503-3785 (color film transparency)
Credit line Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID highsm.15394.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Licensing[edit]

Public domain This work is from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Carol M. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain. Photographs of sculpture or other works of art may be restricted by the copyright of the artist.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:16, 23 January 2014Thumbnail for version as of 18:16, 23 January 20146,619 × 5,182 (98.13 MB)Bonnachoven (talk | contribs)Flip horizontal. Original File from LoC is backwards.
17:59, 23 January 2014Thumbnail for version as of 17:59, 23 January 20146,619 × 5,182 (98.18 MB)Bonnachoven (talk | contribs){{Information |Description ={{en|1=Pic of Costumed Interpeter with boat, at Lock 20 (Great Falls Tavern) on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Note that LoC's scan of the digital transparency is flipped backwards. Also the posing in the photo is strange. T...

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Costumed_interpreter_with_a_mule_on_the_canal_towpath_at_the_Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Canal_Lock_20.tiff&oldid=868951772"