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St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium, Springfield, Mass. – Antique Print

St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium, Springfield, Mass., c1908. — historic photograph
St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium, Springfield, Mass., c1908.. 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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St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium, Springfield, Mass. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium, Springfield, Mass.

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St. Michael's Cathedral and St. Luke's Sanitarium sit side by side in Springfield, Massachusetts, and this 8 x 10 inch glass negative records both buildings in the same view around 1908. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed towns and landmarks across the United States for sale as views and travel souvenirs, made the image in the years when it was building its large catalog. Sanitariums of this period often treated tuberculosis with rest, fresh air and sunlight, so the institution would have been a familiar local landmark, and the glass negative itself is a useful record of how these civic buildings looked before later changes.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes4151" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070540. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCathedrals. Sanatoriums.United States--Massachusetts--Springfield.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72121

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