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[Oldest house in Detroit, 299 River Road, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Oldest house in Detroit, 299 River Road, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Oldest house in Detroit, 299 River Road, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Oldest house in Detroit, 299 River Road, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Oldest house in Detroit, 299 River Road, Detroit, Mich.]

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A modest frame dwelling at 299 River Road is the subject of this glass negative, which the title identifies as the oldest house in Detroit. The street ran along the Detroit River, where the city began as a French outpost founded in 1701, so the house stands in one of the earliest settled parts of the city. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, made large-format views like this one to document American towns and streets during the years between 1900 and 1915. Its record of the house is a useful glimpse of a neighborhood that was changing quickly as the city grew around the river.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8769" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500091. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings. Residential streets.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74513

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