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Essex St., looking north from town square, Salem, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art

Essex St., looking north from town square, Salem, Mass., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Essex St., looking north from town square, Salem, Mass., [between 1910 and 1920]. 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 Essex St., looking north from town square, Salem, Mass. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Essex St., looking north from town square, Salem, Mass.

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Looking north from the town square, this view follows Essex Street, the main shopping thoroughfare of Salem, Massachusetts, as it appeared in the 1910s. The picture is a glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed towns and scenic sites across the United States for sale to travelers and publishers in the decades around 1900. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, and it offers a useful record of a New England commercial street in the years before the automobile reshaped city life.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNo. 38" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 078024. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Massachusetts--Salem.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 758 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74341

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