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Scranton, Pa., general view – Historic Reproduction

Scranton, Pa., general view, c1900. — historic photograph
Scranton, Pa., general view, c1900.. 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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A window into the past: Scranton, Pa., general view, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two large glass negatives make up the left and center sections of this three-part panorama of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the right section is not in the collection. The Detroit Photographic Company, later known as the Detroit Publishing Company, made the view and registered its copyright in 1900. Working with mammoth plates measuring 18 by 22 inches, its photographers captured wide sweeps of American towns and cities around the turn of the century. Scranton, a center of anthracite coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania, was a busy industrial city at that time, so the view records the working city as much as its streets.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Mammoth plates.Panoramic photographs.Glass negatives.
NotesNegatives form two parts of a three-part panorama, right section not in collection. Copyright 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co." on left negative. "10225 (3)" on left negative; "15072" and "10225 (3)" on center negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015072. Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 010225. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States--Pennsylvania--Scranton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80135

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