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Lower Peachtree Street – Vintage Photo Print

Lower Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA : Published by Lester Book and Stationery Co., 60 Peachtree Street, [190-] (Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Albertype Co.) — historic print
Lower Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA : Published by Lester Book and Stationery Co., 60 Peachtree Street, [190-] (Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Albertype Co.). Historic print from the Georgia 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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Lower Peachtree Street comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This view of Lower Peachtree Street shows the stretch of Atlanta's best-known thoroughfare that served as its commercial core in the early 1900s, with streetcar tracks running down the middle of the roadway. It was issued as an illustration in a souvenir book about Atlanta, published by the Lester Book and Stationery Co. from its Peachtree Street address and printed by the Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, New York. Albertype was known for reproducing photographs in photomechanical form, and photogravure gives the image its soft tonal range and fine detail in buildings and street life. The print is a useful record of how a growing Southern city presented itself to visitors in the years around 1900.

Created / publishedAtlanta, GA : Published by Lester Book and Stationery Co., 60 Peachtree Street, [190-] (Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Albertype Co.)
Medium1 photomechanical print : photogravure.
GenreCityscape prints 1900-1910.Book illustrations 1900-1910.Viewbooks 1900-1910.Photogravures 1900-1910.
NotesTitle from item. Illus. in: Souvenir of Atlanta, Georgia.
SubjectsBusiness districts--1900-1910. Commercial streets--1900-1910. Street railroads--1900-1910. Atlanta (Ga.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,304 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210225

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