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[Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Co.) store, Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Print

[Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Co.) store, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1907 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Co.) store, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1907 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street in Chicago is the subject of this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, which records the building and the busy street in front of it. The retailer was one of the largest department store operations in the country, and its State Street building, designed by Daniel Burnham and completed around 1907, helped anchor the city's downtown shopping district. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many such views, used large glass plates to capture street scenes in fine detail. The record lists Hans Behm as a possible photographer, so that attribution remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1907 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly by Hans Behm. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034698. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDepartment stores. Streets.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67511

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