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[Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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 [Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.]

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Wabash Avenue and 15th Street was home to the Coliseum, a large exhibition hall that drew crowds for conventions, expositions, and public events in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its color and black-and-white views of American cities and landscapes, made this image as a large-format glass negative, and the company's catalog number is printed on it. Its tall, plain street front shows the scale that made the building a fixture of the city's public life in that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039418. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsColiseum (Chicago, Ill.) Auditoriums.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69085

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