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Y.M.C.A. building, Buffalo, N.Y. – Historic Photo Reproduction

Y.M.C.A. building, Buffalo, N.Y., c1908. — historic photograph
Y.M.C.A. building, Buffalo, N.Y., c1908.. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Y.M.C.A. building, Buffalo, N.Y. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Around 1908, the Detroit Publishing Company recorded the Young Men's Christian Association building in Buffalo, New York, on a large glass-plate negative. Buffalo was then a busy Great Lakes port and rail hub at the eastern end of the Erie Canal. By that time the YMCA had grown from a religious outreach for young men into a network of city buildings with reading rooms, gymnasiums, classrooms and residence rooms. Photographs like this one show how such civic institutions presented themselves to the public.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 5635" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071137. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOrganizations' facilities. Public service organizations.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72520

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