Forked Road - Hastings, New York was photographed sometime between 1895-1910 by the artist Arthur Wesley Dow.
During those years, Dow taught art at Pratt Institute and Columbia University, both in New York City and also conducted a summer school in his hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts. How he came to be in upstate New York, I have yet to discover.
The photograph was made using the cyanotype process that takes its name from the cyan color (Prussian blue) of the finished print (in the collection of the San Francisco museum of Fine Arts).
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