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High school, Gloucester, Mass. – Vintage Print

High school, Gloucester, Mass., c1906. — historic photograph
High school, Gloucester, Mass., c1906.. 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 High school, Gloucester, Mass., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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High school, Gloucester, Mass.

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Gloucester's high school, photographed around 1906, stands in a city best known for its fishing fleet on Cape Ann, the rocky peninsula north of Boston. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, which between about 1890 and the early 1920s documented towns, landscapes and institutions across the United States. Large glass plates like this one captured fine detail, making such views useful for studying early twentieth-century New England school buildings and their surroundings. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30426. 3071" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018879. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSchools. Educational facilities.United States--Massachusetts--Gloucester.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62350

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