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Detroit City Gas Co., Station A gas holder – Historic Print

Detroit City Gas Co., Station A gas holder, 1912 May 18. — historic photograph
Detroit City Gas Co., Station A gas holder, 1912 May 18.. 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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A window into the past: Detroit City Gas Co., Station A gas holder, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Detroit City Gas Co., Station A gas holder

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The gas holder at the center of this view belonged to the Detroit City Gas Company's Station A, one of the works that turned coal into the manufactured gas used for lighting and cooking in the city before natural gas became common. Such holders were large steel tanks that rose and fell with the volume of gas they stored, so their height told a plant worker how much fuel was on hand. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for documenting American cities in the early twentieth century, made the picture, and its caption card dates it to May 18, 1912. The catalog data is marked as unverified, so the date is best treated as the card's claim rather than a confirmed fact.

Created / published1912 May 18.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Construction; Geogr.; Gas.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,230 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141812

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