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[Buffalo, N.Y., Gates Circle] – Vintage Print

[Buffalo, N.Y., Gates Circle], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Buffalo, N.Y., Gates Circle], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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[Buffalo, N.Y., Gates Circle] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Gates Circle is a traffic circle on Buffalo's Delaware Avenue, where the city's park and parkway system, laid out in the late 1800s by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, meets the street grid. This large glass negative, made sometime between 1900 and 1910, records the circle at a time when streetcars and carriages shared the roadway and the new park boulevards were drawing city residents out to the green spaces. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced this view, sent photographers across the country to document towns and landscapes for sale as postcards and prints. The 8-by-10-inch format gives the scene a sharp, detailed record of its streets and surroundings.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6637" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039264. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPlazas.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68945

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