Early 20th Century Hand-Colored Landscape Photograph

This item is an early 20th-century landscape photograph, likely a hand-colored or tinted silver gelatin print, depicting a serene river or creek scene set against a dense forest of coniferous trees. The image features a muted color palette dominated by sage greens, soft blues, and subtle earth tones, characteristic of the pictorialist style popular between 1900 and 1930. The composition showcases a gentle water current flowing over a rocky bed in the foreground, leading the eye toward a verdant bank and a towering backdrop of evergreens under a hazy sky. The photograph is housed in its original, flat-profile wooden frame which features a dark greenish-black painted or faux-grained finish over a lighter natural wood base. Notable condition issues are present, particularly on the frame, which shows significant paint loss, flaking, and structural wear with exposed wood on the lower and right-hand sections. The photograph itself displays some minor fading and silvering consistent with age. There appears to be a faint signature or studio mark in the bottom right corner, though it is difficult to decipher without magnification. This piece exemplifies the transition from early documentary photography to fine-art landscape capture, common in the American Northwest or similar regions during the early 1900s.