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[Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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Washtenaw Avenue was one of the main thoroughfares in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a college town built around the University of Michigan, and this glass plate records how the street looked in the years before the First World War. The negative is an 8 by 10 inch dry plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that traveled widely to document American towns, scenic spots and city streets for sale as souvenirs and publications. Such views are valuable today because they capture the horse-era streetscape, with its storefronts, unpaved or early-paved roadways and the mix of pedestrians and vehicles that defined small American cities at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5950" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039072. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--Michigan--Ann Arbor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68770

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