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[S.E. from Whitney Building, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[S.E. from Whitney Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[S.E. from Whitney Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[S.E. from Whitney Building, Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[S.E. from Whitney Building, Detroit, Mich.]

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The Whitney Building is the subject here, pictured from the southeast in a view that shows its street-facing side. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated in the city from the 1890s into the 1920s, made this 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative sometime between 1910 and 1920, a period when Detroit's population and commercial districts were expanding quickly with the automobile boom. The company's photographers recorded downtown business blocks like this one for use in postcards, catalogs, and promotional albums. The negative's survival, including its original catalog number, makes it a useful record of how the city's commercial architecture looked before later rebuilding.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 539-T" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500932. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCommercial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75041

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