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[Elmwood Avenue bridge, Buffalo, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Elmwood Avenue bridge, Buffalo, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Elmwood Avenue bridge, Buffalo, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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A window into the past: [Elmwood Avenue bridge, Buffalo, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Elmwood Avenue bridge, Buffalo, N.Y.]

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Elmwood Avenue crosses a waterway in Buffalo, New York, and the catalog places this view possibly in Delaware Park, the large park laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1870s. The image survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, rivers and parks for commercial sale in the decades around 1900. Its subject headings, bridges and waterfronts, reflect the era's interest in recording civic improvements. Because it was made on a large glass plate, it holds fine detail that smaller formats often lost.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly in Delaware Park. G 6634" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039439. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBridges. Waterfronts.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69104

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