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Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) Many were digitized by LOC contractors using a Sinar studio back. They are adjusted by your webmaster for contrast and color in Photoshop before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here.
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Detroit Photos
Landmarks including the Wayne County Building, Detroit City Hall, Hotel Pontchartrain, Ford Building, Dime Bank, Detroit Post Office, Woodward Avenue, the Campus Martius and Cadillac Square. Telling the story of the city from the turn of the century to the 1940s, these Detroit photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.
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Ford Factory: 1916
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The Grill Room: 1912
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Advanced Vaudeville: 1912
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Cityscape: 1917
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Down to the River: 1910
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Mercantile Library: 1910
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Infrastructure: 1910
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Tubular Lanterns: 1905
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Old Cold: 1905
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Campbell's Empire: 1904
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Between the Grands: 1912
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Pringle Furniture: 1912
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Dept. of Life Rafts: 1912
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Loaf Wrappers: 1914
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The Shape of Things to Come: 1912
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The Motor City: 1917
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Something Wicker: 1912
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Rooms With a View: 1912
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The Busy Corner: 1906
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Detroit: 1910
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Going Up: 1911
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The Old Ball Game: 1942
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Melancholy of a Street: 1900
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Detroit of Detroit: 1904
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The Casino at Belle Isle: 1907
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Detroit Publishing: The Sequel
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Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
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