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[Lowell, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Lowell, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Lowell, Mass.], [between 1900 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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A window into the past: [Lowell, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This picture belongs to a set of three glass negatives, each 8 by 10 inches, that the catalog describes as a sequence to be read left to right, so it was likely meant to be seen as part of a single view of Lowell, Massachusetts. The city grew into one of the largest textile manufacturing centers in the country during the 19th century, powered by the Merrimack River and its canal system. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made views of American towns and landscapes around 1900 to 1910, sold such images to travelers, publishers and businesses. Its scenes of working cities like Lowell offer a record of the industrial streetscape of that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreand 4233" on L
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19180, 19179, 19178. 4231
SubjectsUnited States--Massachusetts--Lowell.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68558

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