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[Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.], [1906?]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Fourth Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, is the subject here, a street lined with residences and crossed by streetcar tracks, which places it in the period when electric streetcars were reshaping American city life. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, produced many such views of American towns and cities, often sold as photochrome prints. The negative is a large 8 x 10 inch glass plate, a format favored for its sharp detail, and its surviving record shows it came to the Library of Congress as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949. The date of about 1906 is an estimate.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 3598" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034331. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets. Street railroads.United States--Kentucky--Louisville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67300

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