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[Old and new Essex County courthouses, Federal Street, Salem, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Old and new Essex County courthouses, Federal Street, Salem, Mass.], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Old and new Essex County courthouses, Federal Street, Salem, Mass.], [ca. 1910]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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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[Old and new Essex County courthouses, Federal Street, Salem, Mass.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Old and new Essex County courthouses, Federal Street, Salem, Mass.]

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Two courthouses stand side by side on Federal Street in Salem, Massachusetts, the older one recalling an earlier era of county building and the newer one showing the larger, more formal style that county governments favored in the early 1900s. Salem served as the seat of Essex County, so the pairing captures a period when the county's courts were in transition between buildings. The image is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to record American towns and streets between about 1900 and 1915. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a gift in 1949, preserving a clear view of the street as it looked around 1910.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. No. 5" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039489. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCourthouses.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 760 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69148

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