Robert's "Abbot-Detroit" – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Robert's "Abbot-Detroit", preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Robert's "Abbot-Detroit"
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The caption on this glass negative reads "Robert's 'Abbot-Detroit,'" a label that pairs a name with the Michigan city, though the Bain News Service noted that such titles came from its own unverified notes. The negative is dated 1910 and belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's agency supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass plates, usually 5 by 7 inches or smaller, offer a sharp record of people and events of the period. Detroit was then a fast-growing industrial city, which gives the picture useful context.
| Created / published | 10/1/10. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,259 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9795 |
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