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[Main Street, east from 11th, Richmond, Va.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Main Street, east from 11th, Richmond, Va.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Main Street, east from 11th, Richmond, Va.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Richmond 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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[Main Street, east from 11th, Richmond, Va.]

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Looking east from the corner of 11th Street, this view runs down Main Street through the commercial heart of Richmond, Virginia, in the years before the First World War. The glass negative, which measures 8 by 10 inches, came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country between about 1900 and 1915 to document towns, rail lines and scenic spots for postcards and promotional booklets. Street scenes like this one record the look of a working downtown at the time, with its storefronts, signs and the mix of pedestrians and vehicles on the roadway. The negative was given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 and later became part of the Library of Congress collection.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9000" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500592. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Virginia--Richmond.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74913

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