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The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. – Historic Reproduction

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co., [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.

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The Woodmill was a working facility of the Merchants' Despatch Transportation Company, a freight line that ran its own fast freight cars over the railroads and was a major shipper in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The image is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, the kind of large-format plate that gave the Detroit Publishing Company sharp detail for its catalog views. The company, which took over the Detroit Photographic Company's operations, documented American towns, industry, and railroads in the years around 1900, so this view offers a record of industrial infrastructure from that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 2302" and "Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043128. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70120

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