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Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. – Antique Wall Art

Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., c1907. — historic photograph
Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., c1907.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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This rare historic photograph captures Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Drexel Boulevard was one of the South Side's broad residential avenues, where substantial houses stood along a tree-lined roadway. This c1907 view comes from a large 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative, the kind the Detroit Publishing Company used to build its catalog of American streets and scenery in the early 1900s. The company's notes list the photographer as possibly Hans Behm, and the plate's size and format show the careful, deliberate work of that era. Images like this record how Chicago's wealthier neighborhoods looked just after the city's boulevard building boom.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesPossibly by Hans Behm. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070166. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsResidential streets.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71751

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