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Circa 1900. "Main Street -- Northfield, Massachusetts." The bucolic burg last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
What an amazing urban tree canopy, sadly now nonexistent in most North American cities. Imagine the myriad, joyful springtime choruses emanating from countless, tree-abiding avian throats during nesting season. The sounds issuing from among the branches were surely rapturous to most human ears. Unfortunately, the less noise-tolerant might have considered it to be a loathsome infringement on their senses.
[A towering bower of trillable syllables. - Dave]
Once in natural colors and once as if, say, Andy Warhol had painted it. I'd offer to do it myself, but photoshop is one of the many, many things of which I know not.
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