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[Cottages at riverside, St. Clair Flats, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Cottages at riverside, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [1905?] — historic photograph
[Cottages at riverside, St. Clair Flats, Mich.], [1905?]. 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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Riverside cottages and their wooden piers line the waterways of the St. Clair Flats, a marshy delta where the St. Clair River opens toward Lake St. Clair, south of Detroit. The date of about 1905 places the scene in the years when the Flats drew anglers, duck hunters, and summer visitors who built small seasonal homes along the channels. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced many such views of American towns and waterfronts around the turn of the 20th century, made the large glass negative, and its survival through a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado explains how it reached the Library of Congress.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2950" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033924. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings. Piers & wharves.United States--Michigan--Saint Clair Flats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67076

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