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[United States Post Office, Custom House and Court House, Cleveland, Ohio] – Vintage Print

[United States Post Office, Custom House and Court House, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
[United States Post Office, Custom House and Court House, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1910 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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 buildings in Cleveland were as central to the federal government's presence in the city as this one, which combined the post office, customs house, and federal courts under a single roof. Its heavy masonry and monumental entrance reflect the late nineteenth-century habit of giving federal offices a dignified civic face in growing American cities. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 5 x 7 inch glass negative between roughly 1910 and 1930, sold views of towns and landmarks across the country, so the picture was likely meant to present Cleveland as a prosperous and orderly city. The negative later came to the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from negative D4-72370. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsGovernment facilities.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 692 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77069

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