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[A Grosse Ile road, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[A Grosse Ile road, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[A Grosse Ile road, Mich.], [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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This rare historic photograph captures [A Grosse Ile road, Mich.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[A Grosse Ile road, Mich.]

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A road curves past a windmill on Grosse Ile, the largest island in the Detroit River, in this view made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between 1900 and 1910. The company produced large glass-plate negatives of towns, farms, and country roads across the United States, and it sold the views as prints and postcards for travelers. Windmills were a common sight on Michigan farms of the period, where they pumped water for livestock and fields, so the picture shows a working rural landscape as much as a scenic one.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 61 C" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042904. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWindmills. Roads.United States--Michigan--Grosse Ile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69929

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