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[State St., Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Wall Art

[State St., Chicago, Ill.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[State St., Chicago, Ill.], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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[State St., Chicago, Ill.] 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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The sign on the building at right reads "A.M. Rothschild & Co.," a clothing and dry goods retailer that had a store on State Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of downtown Chicago. The view is a glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns and cities for commercial sale around the turn of the twentieth century. Dated between 1895 and 1910, it captures a period when State Street was crowded with department stores, shops, and streetcar traffic, and the storefronts show how the district presented itself to shoppers.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. On building at right: A.M. Rothschild & Co. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032112. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65789

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