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Main Street and common, Plymouth, N.H. – Vintage Photo Print

Main Street and common, Plymouth, N.H., c1908. — historic photograph
Main Street and common, Plymouth, N.H., c1908.. 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 Main Street and common, Plymouth, N.H.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Main Street and the town common in Plymouth, New Hampshire, appear here as they looked around 1908, when the village sat in the Pemigewasset Valley. The view was made as a dry plate glass negative, one of the large-format plates the Detroit Publishing Company used to build its catalog of American towns, scenery, and streets. The company sold these views as postcards and prints, and its work from this period is valued for documenting small New England communities in the years before the automobile reshaped their main streets. The shot shows the open common alongside the street, a reminder of how central these shared green spaces were to civic life.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes4368" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070476. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Parks.United States--New Hampshire--Plymouth.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72060

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