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[East Street, Pittsfield, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[East Street, Pittsfield, Mass.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[East Street, Pittsfield, Mass.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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East Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is captured here as an ordinary residential thoroughfare, the kind of tree-lined block that filled the city's neighborhoods in the early twentieth century. The glass negative was made sometime between 1905 and 1915, when the Detroit Publishing Company was documenting towns and scenery across the United States, often for sale as postcards and lantern slides. Pittsfield, the county seat of Berkshire County, had grown into an industrial city by then, and its street scenes offer a glimpse of the houses and daily life supporting that growth. The plate reached the Library of Congress after a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7266" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039875. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets.United States--Massachusetts--Pittsfield.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69344

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