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Kate Cleghorn (aka Kathleen M. Cleghorn)
American, born 1953
From the series, Natchez Trace
Kate Cleghorn’s photographs picture evidence of the historic and pre-historic past that is still with us today. Sunken Trace captures the appearance of a segment of the Natchez Trace that has been work into a deep rut through the primeval southern forest. By the time she made the photograph, the heyday of the route’s use by Americans of European and African heritage was nearly two centuries old. In fact, the Natchez Trace became obsolete before the Civil War —a relic of time before the new-fangled steamboat made it quicker, easier, and cheaper to go up the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers to Nashville rather than to walk the ancient trade route of the Choctaw and Chickasaw.
American, born 1953
Sunken Trace
2007From the series, Natchez Trace
Object Type:
Photograph
Dimensions:
11 in. x 14 in. (27.94 cm x 35.56 cm)
Medium and Support:
Digital inkjet print on paper
Accession Number:
2008.0014
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Kate Cleghorn’s photographs picture evidence of the historic and pre-historic past that is still with us today. Sunken Trace captures the appearance of a segment of the Natchez Trace that has been work into a deep rut through the primeval southern forest. By the time she made the photograph, the heyday of the route’s use by Americans of European and African heritage was nearly two centuries old. In fact, the Natchez Trace became obsolete before the Civil War —a relic of time before the new-fangled steamboat made it quicker, easier, and cheaper to go up the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers to Nashville rather than to walk the ancient trade route of the Choctaw and Chickasaw.
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