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Bay St. [Street], Nassau, Bahama Islands – Antique Photo Print

Bay St. [Street], Nassau, Bahama Islands, c1906. — historic photograph
Bay St. [Street], Nassau, Bahama Islands, c1906.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bay St. [Street], Nassau, Bahama Islands. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Bay St. [Street], Nassau, Bahama Islands

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Bay Street was the main commercial thoroughfare of Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, and this c1906 view captures it as a working street of shops and colonial-era buildings. The photograph was made as a dry plate glass negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across North America and beyond to document towns and scenery and then sold the views to tourists and collectors. Nassau was drawing growing numbers of winter visitors from the United States in these years, and that demand helped make street scenes like this one popular souvenirs.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesK-9" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09434. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.Bahamas--Nassau.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76680

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