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[Campus and Main Street, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Campus and Main Street, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
[Campus and Main Street, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1906]. 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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Williams College, founded in 1793 in the Berkshire hills of northwestern Massachusetts, sits where its campus meets the town's Main Street, and this glass negative records that meeting point in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made large-format views of American towns, landscapes and institutions for sale to the public, listed the scene in its 1906 catalog. Because the picture survives as an 8 x 10 inch dry plate negative, it preserves far more fine detail than a printed postcard could, showing the street, buildings and trees as they stood before the automobile reshaped small college towns.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle and date from Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 2151 A" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017759. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWilliams College. Streets. Universities & colleges.United States--Massachusetts--Williamstown.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61427

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