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Washington Avenue and Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich. – Historic Print

Washington Avenue and Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich., c1905. — historic photograph
Washington Avenue and Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich., c1905.. 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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A window into the past: Washington Avenue and Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Washington Avenue and Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Grand Circus Park, at the junction of Woodward and Washington, anchors this view, and the Michigan Conservatory of Music stands at the left edge of the frame. The Detroit Publishing Company made the 8 by 10 inch glass negative around 1905, when the company was documenting American cities and landscapes for sale as postcards and printed views. The park's open lawns and the street lined with commercial and cultural buildings reflect Detroit's rapid growth in the early twentieth century. Those large negatives captured street scenes in fine detail, so the storefronts and streetcar traffic of the period remain legible today.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30383. Michigan Conservatory of Music at left. G [...]29" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018755. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Parks.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62250

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