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[Library park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Library park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Library park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Library park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.]

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This view of Library Park, at the corner of Gratiot Avenue and Farmer Street in downtown Detroit, is the right-hand half of a wider panorama, so the park itself appears only in part. The streetcar tracks and the busy commercial frontage show a city whose downtown ran on electric trolleys in the years before 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views of American towns and cities from the 1890s into the 1920s, made the negative on a glass plate. Its wide format and attention to street life give a useful record of how a central Detroit intersection looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Originally right section of a larger panorama; other section(s), showing the park, not in collection. G 8855" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037223. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreet railroads. Streets. Commercial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68684

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