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[Sumner Avenue looking east, Springfield, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Sumner Avenue looking east, Springfield, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Sumner Avenue looking east, Springfield, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Sumner Avenue looking east, Springfield, Mass.]

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Sumner Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts, is the subject here, shot looking east down a residential street in the years between 1900 and 1910. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued a huge catalog of views of American towns, cities and landscapes at the turn of the twentieth century, made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative. Its survival and its donation to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 mark the route by which many of these plates reached public collections, and the street view itself records the ordinary streetscape of a New England city during the early automobile era.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 4155" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034910. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--Massachusetts--Springfield.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67709

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