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[Government Street, looking east, Mobile, Alabama] – Antique Photo Print

[Government Street, looking east, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Government Street, looking east, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Mobile 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 [Government Street, looking east, Mobile, Alabama] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Government Street, looking east, Mobile, Alabama]

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Government Street was one of the main east-west thoroughfares of Mobile, Alabama, a port city on Mobile Bay, and this view looks down its length toward the east. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, the kind of large-format plate that Detroit Publishing Company photographers used to make views of towns and scenery between about 1900 and 1915. The company sold its images widely, often as hand-colored prints, so many of its surviving negatives show how American cities looked to tourists and buyers of the period. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7033" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039537. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--Alabama--Mobile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69194

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