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[Detroit] Motor Boat Club, front view, [Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Detroit] Motor Boat Club, front view, [Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Detroit] Motor Boat Club, front view, [Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Detroit] Motor Boat Club, front view, [Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Detroit] Motor Boat Club, front view, [Detroit, Mich.]

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The Detroit Motor Boat Club is the subject of this view, shown from the front, and the building reflects the early-1900s enthusiasm for gasoline-powered launches and racing on the Detroit River. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, produced views like this one for sale as postcards and souvenir prints. Its large glass negative, about 6.5 by 8.5 inches, was later donated to the Library of Congress through the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949. The clubhouse's front elevation shows how such social clubs presented themselves to the city's waterfront public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes159" and "B 27" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040368. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBoat clubs. Clubhouses.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 753 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69423

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