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[Willow Ave., Star Island, St. Clair Flats, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Willow Ave., Star Island, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Willow Ave., Star Island, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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 [Willow Ave., Star Island, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Willow Ave., Star Island, St. Clair Flats, Mich.]

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Willow Avenue on Star Island, in the St. Clair Flats where the St. Clair River spreads into a maze of channels and marshy islands before reaching Lake St. Clair, is shaded by the willows that give the street its name. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative in the years before 1915, when the firm was recording American towns, waterways and resorts for sale as postcards and travel views. The flats were a popular summer retreat for boaters and cottagers from Detroit, so the picture captures a quiet, leafy residential lane at the water's edge.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8837" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500093. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRoads. Willows. Waterfronts.United States--Michigan--Saint Clair Flats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan791 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74514

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