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[A Home on Grosse Isle] – Antique Print

[A Home on Grosse Isle], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[A Home on Grosse Isle], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Grosse Isle, an island in the Detroit River south of the city, drew Detroit families seeking summer retreats in the late nineteenth century, and this picture shows one of the homes that stood on its shores during that resort era. The glass-plate negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed towns, resorts and landscapes across the country around 1900 and sold the views to travelers and publishers. The image preserves how summer houses on the island looked when they were built more for leisure than for year-round farming.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 75" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042577. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Michigan--Grosse Isle.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69718

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