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Pickering House, Salem, Mass. – Historic Reproduction

Pickering House, Salem, Mass., c1906. — historic photograph
Pickering House, Salem, Mass., 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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Step back in time with Pickering House, Salem, Mass., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Pickering House, Salem, Mass.

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The Pickering House in Salem, Massachusetts, is one of the city's older surviving dwellings, and this 1906 view records it as it looked in the early twentieth century, when Salem was drawing visitors interested in its colonial past. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, landscapes and buildings for sale to travelers and publishers. Glass negatives like this one preserve fine architectural detail, such as the clapboards, window sash and doorway, that later reproductions often lose.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3141" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018874. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62345

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