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Georgeville, on Lake Memphremagog, QC
Alexander HendersonAbout / vers 1870
McCord Stewart Museum
Montreal, Canada
Situated beside the large Lake Memphrémagog, Georgeville is one of the oldest villages in the Eastern Townships. The fascination exerted by the lake's bucolic shores on the figure in the picture evokes the popularity of this region since the 1860s.
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- Title: Georgeville, on Lake Memphremagog, QC
- Creator Lifespan: 1831/1913
- Date: About / vers 1870
- Type: Photographie, Photograph
- Titre: Georgeville, sur le lac Memphrémagog, QC
- Photographer: Alexander Henderson
- Description: Situé sur le bord du grand lac Memphrémagog, Georgeville est l'un des plus anciens villages des Cantons de l'Est. La fascination qu'exercent les berges bucoliques du lac sur un spectateur témoigne de l'attrait de cette région depuis les années 1860.
- Credit line: Gift of Stanley G. Triggs, Don de Stanley Triggs
- Rights: http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/orders/conditions/
- External Link: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-0000.1828.34.31
- Medium: Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Albumen process, Sels d'argent sur papier monté sur carton - Papier albuminé
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