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[Third Avenue, Louisville, Ky.] – Historic Print

[Third Avenue, Louisville, Ky.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Third Avenue, Louisville, Ky.], [1906?]. 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 [Third Avenue, Louisville, Ky.], 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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Third Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, appears here as a quiet residential street lined with dwellings, a view of the city's homes rather than its commerce. The glass negative is dated to about 1906 and was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country to document towns, rail routes and landscapes for postcards and published views. Its 8 by 10 inch plates captured sharp detail, which makes street scenes like this one useful records of domestic architecture at the turn of the century. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 3599" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034332. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets. Dwellings.United States--Kentucky--Louisville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67301

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