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[Central High School, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Central High School, Detroit, Mich.], [1904?] — historic photograph
[Central High School, Detroit, Mich.], [1904?]. 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: [Central High School, 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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[Central High School, Detroit, Mich.]

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Central High School in Detroit is the subject here, a civic school building photographed at a time when the city was expanding its public education system. The negative is an 8 by 10 inch glass plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American towns, landmarks and everyday life in the early 1900s. Its date is an estimate, given with a question mark, so the photograph is best read as a record of the building and its surroundings around the turn of the twentieth century.

Created / published[1904?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033384. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsSchools. Educational facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66669

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