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[State Street, south from Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Photo Print

[State Street, south from Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[State Street, south from Lake Street, 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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[State Street, south from Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.]

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State Street, looking south from Lake Street, was one of Chicago's busiest downtown shopping corridors in the years before 1910, when department stores and retailers lined the Loop after the city rebuilt from the 1871 fire. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American cities, towns, and landscapes made around the turn of the twentieth century. The record notes a "Dup" marking, so this is a duplicate negative, and it reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. The view offers a useful record of the street's commercial character and its crowded, horse-and-streetcar era.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. "Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070158. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71745

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