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[Central market & buzzards, Charleston, S.C.] – Vintage Print

[Central market & buzzards, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Central market & buzzards, Charleston, S.C.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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Buzzards gathered around the Central Market in Charleston, South Carolina, and this glass negative records that odd pairing of commerce and scavengers. The market, a long building on Market Street that had served the city since the 1840s, drew sellers and shoppers, while the black vultures that roamed the city picked at scraps and refuse. Such birds were a familiar part of Southern town life before sanitation improved, and they often perched on rooftops and fences near the stalls. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely around 1900 documenting American towns and cities.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4140" and "dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070108. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMarkets. Vultures.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71701

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