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[Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, Salem, Mass.] – Antique Photo Print

[Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, Salem, Mass.], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, 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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Step back in time with [Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, Salem, Mass.], 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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[Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, Salem, Mass.]

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Few houses in Salem have stood as long as the Pickering House at 18 Broad Street, which dates to the mid-1600s and takes its name from the family that long owned it. This ca. 1910 view was made on a glass dry plate by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country to document towns, streets and historic buildings for sale as prints and postcards. Interest in Salem's colonial architecture grew in the early 1900s, which helps explain why a house like this was worth recording. The negative has a break at the upper left, repaired with tape, a reminder of how fragile glass plates could be after decades in storage.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Negative broken upper left and taped. No. 34" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039479. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69140

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