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[Woodward Avenue and Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Woodward Avenue and Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Woodward Avenue and Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[Woodward Avenue and Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Mich.]

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This view looks up Woodward Avenue, one of Detroit's principal thoroughfares, toward Central Methodist Episcopal Church, which the title names as the building anchoring the scene. The picture is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American cities and towns in the early twentieth century, and the record dates it to between 1905 and 1920. Its large 8 by 10 inch format gave the photographer fine detail in the street and the church's masonry. Such street views record how a growing industrial city looked before the automobile reshaped its avenues.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. G 5770" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036989. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Methodist churches.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68294

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