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[Smokestack by river, probably the Huron River, Ypsilanti, Michigan] – Vintage Wall Art

[Smokestack by river, probably the Huron River, Ypsilanti, Michigan], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Smokestack by river, probably the Huron River, Ypsilanti, Michigan], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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A tall smokestack rises beside a river in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a small city on the Huron River southwest of Detroit that grew around milling and manufacturing. The river is identified only as probable, since the title was devised by the cataloger. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers worked across the country between 1900 and 1910 and sold views as postcards and travel prints. Made on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, it records the industrial landscape that such commercial photographers often treated as a sign of local growth.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genrein connection with post card order" on jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042848. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Received from Chas. Hemphill
SubjectsSmokestacks. Rivers.United States--Michigan--Ypsilanti.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69886

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