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[Fyfe's Shoe Building, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Fyfe's Shoe Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fyfe's Shoe Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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: [Fyfe's Shoe Building, Detroit, Mich.], 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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[Fyfe's Shoe Building, Detroit, Mich.]

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Fyfe's Shoe Building stands among the downtown Detroit commercial blocks that the Detroit Publishing Company photographed in the years before 1920, a period when the city was growing quickly on the strength of its factories and rising population. The view survives on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, the large format the company favored for its city views. The title comes from the negative's original paper jacket, and the absence of a company catalog number means the exact date rests on the range given in the record. Office buildings like this one show how the commercial core of the city was taking shape during those years.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOffice buildings.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan787 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75113

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