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[Wood Street and the Farmer's Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Wood Street and the Farmer's Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Wood Street and the Farmer's Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Pittsburgh 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Wood Street and the Farmer's Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Wood Street and the Farmer's Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.]

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Wood Street, a busy commercial thoroughfare in downtown Pittsburgh, is the subject here, with the Farmer's Bank standing on its block. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American cities, towns and landscapes in the years before 1915, produced views like this one as picture postcards and bound souvenir albums. Made on an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate, the negative records the storefronts and street life typical of an industrial city's commercial core at the turn of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh's steel and rail economy made its downtown banks and streets places of constant activity, so the view offers a useful glimpse of that working city.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6075" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039051. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCommercial facilities. Banks. Streets.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan795 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68749

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