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[Residence of Franklin H. Walker, 850 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Residence of Franklin H. Walker, 850 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Residence of Franklin H. Walker, 850 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Residence of Franklin H. Walker, 850 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Residence of Franklin H. Walker, 850 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.]

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The record offers little about the household at 850 Jefferson Avenue, but the address places the house on Detroit's east-west riverfront boulevard, where prosperous families built substantial residences in the early twentieth century. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, made between about 1905 and 1915 by the Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded the city and much of the country in large-format views and photochrom prints. Because the negative survives, the house can be reproduced from the original plate rather than from a later copy.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. McC 445" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043704. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70476

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