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[Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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Washington Boulevard was one of Detroit's showpiece thoroughfares in the early 1900s, a broad street lined with commercial buildings that ran through the city's downtown core. This glass negative, made by the Detroit Publishing Company between 1900 and 1910, captures that stretch of street at a time when the company was documenting American cities for its photographic catalog and promotional sales. The company's work, later preserved in the Library of Congress, offers a useful record of how urban streets looked and functioned before the automobile dominated them. Its subjects here include the storefronts and open plaza space that defined the boulevard's commercial life.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036343. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCommercial facilities. Streets. Plazas.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67848

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