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[The Drive, Reed's Lake, East Grand Rapids, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[The Drive, Reed's Lake, East Grand Rapids, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[The Drive, Reed's Lake, East Grand Rapids, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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[The Drive, Reed's Lake, East Grand Rapids, Mich.]

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Reed's Lake, on the edge of East Grand Rapids, sets this view of a street called The Drive apart from other scenes on the board, and the record notes a possible church or religious building at the left. The glass negative, eight by ten inches, was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded towns and resorts across the United States in the years before 1920. Lakeside roads like this one drew summer visitors arriving by streetcar and automobile, so the scene offers a useful glimpse of early twentieth-century suburban life. The plate reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly church or religious building at left. H 90" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036691. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--Michigan--East Grand Rapids.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68062

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