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[Red Cedar River, Lansing, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Red Cedar River, Lansing, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Red Cedar River, Lansing, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: [Red Cedar River, Lansing, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Red Cedar River, Lansing, Mich.]

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The Red Cedar River, pictured here in a glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, runs through Lansing, Michigan, the state capital, and joins the Grand River within the city. The company's photographers traveled widely in the years before 1920, documenting towns, rivers and scenery for promotional and commercial sale, and this view belongs to that effort. Glass negatives of this size, 8 by 10 inches, were valued for their sharp detail, which lets viewers study the riverbanks and built surroundings closely today. The record notes that the negative was a gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, a reminder of how these plates moved between collections over time.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 48" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036725. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers.United States--Michigan--Lansing.United States--Michigan--Red Cedar River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68078

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