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[Street with automobile and Moesta's store] – Antique Photo Print

[Street with automobile and Moesta's store], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Street with automobile and Moesta's store], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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: [Street with automobile and Moesta's store], 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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A parked automobile and a storefront signed Moesta's give this street view its particular character, a pairing that reflects the shift from horse traffic to motor cars in the years around 1900 to 1915. The glass negative is one of the Detroit Publishing Company's plates, made by a firm that sent photographers across the country to document towns and scenery for sale as views to travelers and businesses. The cataloger, not the photographer, supplied the title, and the negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. C-1" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 031165. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 713 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76850

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