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[Walkerville, Ont., Devonshire Road, looking south] – Vintage Print

[Walkerville, Ont., Devonshire Road, looking south], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Walkerville, Ont., Devonshire Road, looking south], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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[Walkerville, Ont., Devonshire Road, looking south]

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Devonshire Road in Walkerville, Ontario, a town that grew up around the Hiram Walker distillery across the river from Detroit, is the subject of this view looking south down the street. The Detroit Publishing Company made it on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1905 and 1915, when the firm was documenting towns and streetscapes across North America. Walkerville was not absorbed into Windsor until 1935, so the scene shows a community that was still a separate municipality. Its tree-lined residential streets and houses give a sense of how the border town looked before the automobile reshaped such neighborhoods.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. C 415" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043453. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets.Canada--Ontario--Windsor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70341

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