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[Benjamin Hawkes House, 4 Custom House Court, Salem, Mass.] – Vintage Print

[Benjamin Hawkes House, 4 Custom House Court, Salem, Mass.], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Benjamin Hawkes House, 4 Custom House Court, Salem, Mass.], [ca. 1910]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Benjamin Hawkes House, 4 Custom House Court, Salem, Mass.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Benjamin Hawkes House, 4 Custom House Court, Salem, Mass.]

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The doorway is the focus of this view of the Benjamin Hawkes House on Custom House Court in Salem, Massachusetts, taken around 1910 on a glass dry plate negative. Salem's merchant families built many houses in the Federal style in the decades after the Revolution, when the city's overseas trade made it one of the wealthiest ports in the country, and their entrances were often the most ornamented part of the facade. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this negative, sold views of American towns and landscapes to a national market in the early twentieth century, so the picture also records how a historic street looked to visitors of that period.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8.5 x 6.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. No. 31" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039467. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings. Doors & doorways.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan766 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69128

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