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[Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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: [Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.], 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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[Tradd Street, a bit of old Charleston, Charleston, S.C.]

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Tradd Street is one of the oldest streets on Charleston's historic peninsula, and this view records its residential character before the city's preservation movement took hold. Charleston's old houses drew growing attention from visitors and photographers in the early 1900s, as the city was increasingly promoted for its colonial and antebellum architecture. The Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely recording American towns, made the picture on an 8-by-10-inch glass plate negative, a format that captures fine detail in facades, porches and street edges.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7886" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500313. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets. Dwellings.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74712

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