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Detroit, Mich., Camp Pingree – Vintage Print

Detroit, Mich., Camp Pingree, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Detroit, Mich., Camp Pingree, [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Detroit, Mich., Camp Pingree in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Detroit, Mich., Camp Pingree

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Camp Pingree, a Detroit military encampment, is the subject here, and the record places the picture somewhere between 1900 and 1910, when the site was in use. This view is one of four glass negatives that the Detroit Publishing Company made as a single panorama, so the tents and open ground are meant to be read as one continuous scene when the sections are placed in order. The company was known for photographs of towns, landscapes, and everyday life across the country, and its views of camps like this one offer a clear record of temporary military life in the years before the First World War.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium7 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesVideodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-18938, 18939 (or 18936), 18935 (or 18941), 18937 (or 18940). Four photos form one panorama with close variants of left center, right center, and right sections. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037009. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsMilitary camps.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68317

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