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[Michigan Avenue north from Van Buren, Chicago, Ill.] – Vintage Print

[Michigan Avenue north from Van Buren, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Michigan Avenue north from Van Buren, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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 [Michigan Avenue north from Van Buren, Chicago, Ill.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Michigan Avenue north from Van Buren, Chicago, Ill.]

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This view looks north up Michigan Avenue from Van Buren Street in downtown Chicago, a stretch of the Loop where commercial buildings lined the avenue as the city grew quickly around the turn of the twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued large-format views of American cities and landscapes for travelers and buyers of picture books, made the negative sometime between 1900 and 1910. A "Behm" notation appears on the negative, and the record gives the company's catalog number, which helps researchers trace the scene's place among the firm's Chicago views. The storefronts and street traffic show how the avenue looked before later redevelopment.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034687. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67504

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