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[Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Print

[Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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This historic photograph of [Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.]

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Madison Avenue and the Brevoort Hotel, both named in the title, anchor this view of a Chicago street from the years before 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many commercial views of American towns and cities in that period, took the picture on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative. Chicago had rebuilt quickly after the 1871 fire and grew into a major rail and commerce hub, so streets lined with hotels, shops and offices were a common sight. The negative's catalog number and its later gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 help trace how it reached the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8268" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500186. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Streets. Commercial facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74596

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