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[Commerce Street from Court Square, Montgomery, Ala.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Commerce Street from Court Square, Montgomery, Ala.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Commerce Street from Court Square, Montgomery, Ala.], [1906?]. 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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Step back in time with [Commerce Street from Court Square, Montgomery, Ala.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Commerce Street from Court Square, Montgomery, Ala.]

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Commerce Street runs down toward Court Square in Montgomery, Alabama, and this 8 x 10 inch glass negative captures the square itself, with its fountain and the commercial buildings that lined it. The Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled the country around the turn of the twentieth century, made the view, and its number appears in the record alongside a "G 3640" mark on the negative. Court Square had long been the civic and market heart of the city, and a fountain there would have served as a gathering point for the downtown trade. The date is listed as 1906 with a question mark, so the exact year is uncertain.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 3640" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034348. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPlazas. Fountains. Commercial facilities.United States--Alabama--Montgomery.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67315

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