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[Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad office, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad office, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad office, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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A window into the past: [Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad office, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad office, Detroit, Mich.]

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The focus here is a Detroit office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, a line whose tracks ran across Ohio and Indiana. The image is an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, dated between 1900 and 1910, and it came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities, rail lines and scenic sites on a large scale in those years. Offices like this one handled tickets, freight and shipping arrangements, so the building shows how central the railroads were to commerce in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042687. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCommercial facilities. Railroad companies.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69765

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