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[Ford Sales Office (Boulevard Building), Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Ford Sales Office (Boulevard Building), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Ford Sales Office (Boulevard Building), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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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[Ford Sales Office (Boulevard Building), Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Ford Sales Office (Boulevard Building), Detroit, Mich.]

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The Ford Sales Office in the Boulevard Building shows the company's downtown Detroit presence in the years when Ford was expanding rapidly, roughly from the early Model T era through the 1910s. Although the record dates the negative only to between 1905 and 1920, the period matches Ford's rise from a small automaker to one of the largest manufacturers in the country. The picture was made on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate by the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that photographed American cities and landscapes for sale. Its plain architectural view of a business building reflects how much of the company's work recorded the everyday commercial face of growing cities.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5732" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036968. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOffice buildings.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan816 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68274

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