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Entrance to new probate house, Salem, Mass. – Vintage Print

Entrance to new probate house, Salem, Mass., [between 1909 and 1920] — historic photograph
Entrance to new probate house, Salem, Mass., [between 1909 and 1920]. 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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The entrance pictured here belongs to a new probate house in Salem, Massachusetts, a building where the county handled wills, estates, and guardianships. Its dating, between 1909 and 1920, places it in a period when many American towns were replacing older courthouses with larger, more formal civic buildings that signaled permanence and public trust. The picture was taken on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting towns and buildings across the country. The negative later came to the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, which helps explain how such a regional scene ended up in a national collection.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNumber 17" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 078023. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCourthouses.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan764 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74340

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