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[Detroit skyline at night from Windsor, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Detroit skyline at night from Windsor, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Detroit skyline at night from Windsor, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Detroit skyline at night from Windsor, Detroit, Mich.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Detroit skyline at night from Windsor, Detroit, Mich.]

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Seen from across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, this night view turns the city's skyline into a field of scattered lights along the water. Capturing such a scene on a glass dry plate required long exposures, so the image reflects the technical limits of the period as much as the city itself. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm active in the early 1900s, produced thousands of views of American cities and towns, and this negative is one of its surviving records.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6718" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039310. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsNight.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68989

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