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[State Street, south from Madison, Chicago, Ill.] – Historic Photograph Print

[State Street, south from Madison, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[State Street, south from Madison, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [State Street, south from Madison, Chicago, Ill.]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[State Street, south from Madison, Chicago, Ill.]

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Looking south from Madison Street, this view shows the commercial stretch of State Street in Chicago, which was then the city's leading shopping thoroughfare. Department stores and retail businesses lined the street and drew shoppers from across the city and beyond. The Detroit Publishing Company made the negative on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate, and the firm's photographers traveled widely to document American cities and landscapes in the years between about 1900 and 1915. Plates this large recorded fine architectural and street-level detail, which makes the image useful for studying the era's storefronts and city life.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8267" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500187. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74597

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