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[Main building, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Main building, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Main building, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Mobile 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: [Main building, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Main building, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama]

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Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution on the hills northwest of Mobile, is the subject here, and this glass negative captures its main building in the years before 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which traveled widely photographing American towns, scenery and institutions for color and black-and-white postcards and views, produced many such records of schools and civic landmarks around the turn of the twentieth century. Spring Hill traces its roots to 1830, making it the oldest Catholic college in the South, and its campus was a point of pride for the city. The large-format 8 x 10 negative preserves fine architectural detail that smaller film could not.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7049" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039542. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsEducational facilities.United States--Alabama--Mobile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69199

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