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[Detroit River from Dime Savings Bank Building (Dime Building), Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Detroit River from Dime Savings Bank Building (Dime Building), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Detroit River from Dime Savings Bank Building (Dime Building), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[Detroit River from Dime Savings Bank Building (Dime Building), Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Detroit River from Dime Savings Bank Building (Dime Building), Detroit, Mich.]

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This view looks out over the Detroit River from the upper floors of the Dime Savings Bank Building, one of the downtown towers that gave the city its skyline in the early 1900s. The negative is only the right half of a larger panorama, so the full sweep of the waterfront was split across more than one plate. Detroit sat on a busy link between Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and the river carried the steamers and freighters that moved iron ore, coal, and grain through the Great Lakes. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many large views of American cities in this period, produced the picture.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Originally right section of a larger panorama; other section(s) not in collection. W e C 840" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037239. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States--Michigan--Detroit.United States--Michigan--Detroit River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68701

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