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S[outh] Saginaw St[reet], Flint, [Michigan] – Historic Print

S[outh] Saginaw St[reet], Flint, [Michigan], c[between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
S[outh] Saginaw St[reet], Flint, [Michigan], c[between 1915 and 1925]. 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: S[outh] Saginaw St[reet], Flint, [Michigan], 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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S[outh] Saginaw St[reet], Flint, [Michigan]

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South Saginaw Street was the commercial heart of downtown Flint, Michigan, and this glass-plate view dates from roughly 1915 to 1925, when the city was growing from its carriage-making roots into a center of automobile manufacturing. The Detroit Publishing Company made the negative. The firm sold views of American towns and landscapes, mostly as postcards and prints for travelers and local businesses. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / publishedc[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesB.E. 120" and "Set IV" on label. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2200 D. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States--Michigan--Flint.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 673 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77209

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