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[State Street north from Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Photo Print

[State Street north from Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[State Street north from Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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 [State Street north from Palmer House, 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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[State Street north from Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.]

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Looking north from the front of the Palmer House, this view shows State Street in the heart of Chicago's downtown, with streetcar tracks running down the middle of the roadway. The Palmer House, rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, was one of the city's best-known hotels, and the stores around it drew shoppers from across the city. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued large-format views of American cities and landscapes in the early twentieth century, made this glass plate negative between about 1900 and 1910. Pictures like this show how crowded, streetcar-served avenues worked before the automobile came to dominate city streets.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034689. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities. Street railroads.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67506

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