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[Detroit, Mich., East Grand Boulevard] – Historic Reproduction

[Detroit, Mich., East Grand Boulevard], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Detroit, Mich., East Grand Boulevard], [between 1900 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: [Detroit, Mich., East Grand Boulevard], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Detroit, Mich., East Grand Boulevard]

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East Grand Boulevard, a broad residential thoroughfare on Detroit's east side, is the subject of this 8 by 10 inch glass negative. The Detroit Publishing Company, which began in the 1890s and became known for its photographs and color prints of American places, made many street views like this one in the years before 1920. Boulevards of this kind, with their generous width and large houses, reflect the prosperity that came to Detroit as the city's manufacturing and automobile industries expanded. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9[...]58" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0500521. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResidential streets.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74848

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