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Post office and public library, Bellows Falls, Vt. – Antique Print

Post office and public library, Bellows Falls, Vt., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Post office and public library, Bellows Falls, Vt., [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: Post office and public library, Bellows Falls, Vt., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Post office and public library, Bellows Falls, Vt.

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Bellows Falls, a mill town on the Connecticut River in southeastern Vermont, is the setting here, with a post office and public library on a street that also carried streetcar tracks. Electric street railways reached many small New England towns in the early 1900s, and the tracks show how the town was being rebuilt for modern travel. The 8 by 10 inch glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded American towns, rail lines and scenery from the 1890s into the 1920s. The plate was later given to the Library of Congress by the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes7" and "Saunderson" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070097. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreet railroads. Post offices. Libraries.United States--Vermont--Bellows Falls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan791 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71690

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