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[City Hall and Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Photo Print

[City Hall and Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[City Hall and Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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: [City Hall and Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[City Hall and Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.]

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The Bagley Memorial Fountain anchors the foreground of this view of Campus Martius, the open plaza in downtown Detroit where several streets meet. Beyond it stand City Hall and the Majestic Building, two prominent landmarks on the square in the early 1900s. The image is an 8 x 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed the city extensively for sale as souvenir views. It was originally one section of a panorama, and the companion section is not held here, so the wider scene survives only in part.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Originally part of a panorama; other section not in collection. Bagley Memorial Fountain in foreground, Campus Martius. G 8861-L" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068328. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCity & town halls. Plazas. Office buildings.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan778 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71564

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