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Union Ave., looking east, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

Union Ave., looking east, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., c[between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Union Ave., looking east, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., c[between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Saratoga 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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Union Ave., looking east, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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Looking east down Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, this view captures a tree-lined boulevard that was once one of the grand approaches to the resort town's famous mineral springs. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced thousands of views of American towns and scenery in the decades around 1900, made this glass-plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1920. Saratoga had drawn wealthy visitors since the early nineteenth century, and its broad avenues and hotels reflected that prosperity. The image is a useful record of how a summer resort town looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 6377" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071539. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--New York (State)--Saratoga Springs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72874

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