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[Mich. - Romeo - Main Street, showing trolley and airplane] – Antique Photo Print

[Mich. - Romeo - Main Street, showing trolley and airplane] — historic photograph
[Mich. - Romeo - Main Street, showing trolley and airplane]. Historic photograph from the Trolleys & Streetcars 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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[Mich. - Romeo - Main Street, showing trolley and airplane] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Mich. - Romeo - Main Street, showing trolley and airplane]

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Main Street in Romeo, a village in Macomb County, Michigan, gives this view its particular setting, and the trolley on it places the scene in the years when electric streetcars and interurban lines were reaching small towns. The title also mentions an airplane, which is hard to reconcile with a date of about 1905, when powered flight was still only a few years old. The object may be a kite, a balloon, or a detail the catalog label described loosely, and the record does not settle which. Such street views show how early rail and road travel shared the same ground as the storefronts and foot traffic of a small town.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1905.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,007 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124240

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