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Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880–1920 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html>. Created and maintained by Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed April 2—July 10, 2004.

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America presents the extensive and at times overwhelming digital archive of photographic images from the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company, a photographic publishing firm, which produced and sold postcards, photographic prints, lantern slides, and photo albums in the United States from 1895 to 1924. The more than twenty-five thousand digitized images present a comprehensive view of popular sites and scenes from across the United States and around the world. Ranging from scenic views to cityscapes, from historic landmarks to popular resorts and amusements, views of businesses, colleges and universities, and churches, and reproductions of popular paintings, the collection portrays an idealized view of turn-of-the-century America—a perspective that reflects the Detroit Publishing Company's business of making and selling tourist images, commercial scenes, and booster views. . . .

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