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[Grand Avenue north from Twelfth, Kansas City, Missouri] – Historic Reproduction

[Grand Avenue north from Twelfth, Kansas City, Missouri], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Grand Avenue north from Twelfth, Kansas City, Missouri], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Step back in time with [Grand Avenue north from Twelfth, Kansas City, Missouri], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Grand Avenue north from Twelfth, Kansas City, Missouri]

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Grand Avenue, running north from Twelfth Street, was one of the main commercial corridors of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and this glass-plate view captures its storefronts and street life in the years between 1900 and 1910. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued thousands of photographs of American cities, scenery and businesses in that period, made the image using a large 8 by 10 inch negative, a format that yielded sharp detail for enlargements and reproductions. Commercial streets like this one were the center of daily life for shoppers, workers and streetcar riders, so the picture is useful for seeing how an early twentieth-century city looked at street level.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034288. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Missouri--Kansas City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67280

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