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Y.M.C.A. building, Detroit, Mich. – Vintage Wall Art

Y.M.C.A. building, Detroit, Mich., c1908. — historic photograph
Y.M.C.A. building, Detroit, Mich., c1908.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Y.M.C.A. building, Detroit, Mich.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Y.M.C.A. building, Detroit, Mich.

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The Young Men's Christian Association building in Detroit, photographed around 1908, is preserved as an 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative, the kind of large-format plate that gave the Detroit Publishing Company its sharp views of American streets and buildings. By that time the YMCA had become a common fixture in growing industrial cities, offering young men who had moved to town for work a place to sleep, exercise, and find company. The negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of cities and landscapes across the country, and it later reached the Library of Congress as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071114. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOrganizations' facilities. Public service organizations. Parks.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72500

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