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First Church, Salem Massachusetts – Antique Print

First Church, Salem Massachusetts, c1902. — historic print
First Church, Salem Massachusetts, c1902.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic print captures First Church, Salem Massachusetts in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Most of the Detroit Photographic Company's color views show a single street or building, but this one records First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, a congregation founded in 1629, within a few years of the town's settlement and among the oldest in the Bay Colony. The picture was made around 1902 with the photochrom process, which the Detroit company used to produce color prints from photographs by hand-prepared lithographic stones. The process was popular in the early 1900s for travel views and tourist souvenirs, so the print reflects how Americans of that era pictured their old New England towns, with their churches standing at the center of local life.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color 1900-1910.
NotesCopyright by Detroit Photographic Co.
SubjectsChurches--Massachusetts--Salem--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,460 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218107

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