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Detroit circa 1907. "A glimpse of Woodward Avenue from City Hall." A slice of the Campus Martius bracketed by the Majestic Building and Michigan Avenue at left, and Detroit Opera House on the right. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
New York, 1900. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street." Our sixth look at this historic hostelry. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Manhattan circa 1901. "St. Paul's Chapel and St. Paul Building -- Vesey Street and Broadway, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Ottawa County, Michigan, circa 1901. "Crescent Walk, Macatawa Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1912. "Baltimore waterfront and skyline." Dominated by the Emerson Tower at left, better known as the Bromo-Seltzer Tower, surmounted by a giant, 20-ton Bromo bottle. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
1907. "Atlantic City Boardwalk (lower right) and Young's Million-Dollar Pier." Out on the pier just beyond Marine Hall, and modeled after a popular Coney Island ride, is an attraction called The Tickler ("The big tubs go bowling their curious way down the incline, loaded with happy, laughing passengers," according to an item in the Atlantic Review). This image, a continuation of yesterday's Atlantic City panorama, shows at least two box kites on what must have been a windy day. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1907. "Atlantic City boardwalk and attractions." Including Young's Million-Dollar Pier and the Hotel Marlborough-Blenheim (Marlborough House at center and the domed Blenheim to the left). Panorama made from two 8x10 glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1906. "Pine Beach -- amusements and boardwalk." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Daytona Beach, Florida, 1904. "Hotel Ridgewood, Ridgewood Avenue." The shady byway last glimpsed here, here and here. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Ridgewood and Ridgewood Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Boston circa 1906. "Atlantic Avenue elevated at Hotel Essex (Terminal Hotel)." Completed in 1900, now the Plymouth Rock Building. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing. View full size.
Aboard the U.S.S. Massachusetts circa 1899. "Ready to turn in." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Edward H. Hart for the Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
New Orleans, 1906. "Arcade of Crescent and Tulane Theatres." At the Tulane, the blackface team of McIntyre and Heath headline "The Ham Tree," a musical novelty described by one reviewer as "an amplified vaudeville sketch." 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1905. "Dupont Circle at Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues N.W. White building at left is Patterson House, 15 Dupont Circle." Not to mention all those pedestrians. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue at W. 34th Street." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.