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Whenever you stand before a stunning vista in America, you’ll probably feel drawn to capture it with a photograph. This impulse isn’t new—long before cameras, explorers sketched and engraved the American landscape, and in today’s American Artifacts, I discuss how such images, when thoughtfully chosen, reveal a love of place that you can’t get from the internet.
