Broad Street Streetscape, Looking West

Photograph

Historic Charleston Foundation

Looking West on Broad Street, ca. 1911

Origformat: Digital Image

Name/Title

Broad Street Streetscape, Looking West

Entry/Object ID

BROAD.GEN.009

Description

B&W photograph (scan) of the view looking west on Broad Street from 1 Broad Street (left foreground) and 2 Broad Street (right foreground). Features pedestrians, parked cars, and trolley tracks lining the street. Also features signage for the various businesses on Broad Street, e.g., Carolina Portland Cement Co., Walker Evans & Cogswell Co., Virginia Carolina Chemical Co., Follin Bros. Cigar Co., Henry Plenge Pharmacy, etc.

Collection

HCF Image Collection

Acquisition

Accession

BROAD.GEN.

Source or Donor

Broad Street (General)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Made/Created

Artist

Detroit Photographic Co.

Date made

circa 1911

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pedestrians

Search Terms

Streets, Broad Street, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Cars, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Commercial buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Streets--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architecture--South Carolina--Charleston, Antique and classic cars

Location

Cabinet

Photo File Cabinets

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Provenance

Notes

Obtained from Shorpy.com, entitled "Broad Street: 1911." (See Media link.)

Copyright

Copyright Details

Public domain.

General Notes

Note

Notes: Shorpy.com notes indicate this is a Detroit Publishing Company photo.

Created By

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Create Date

January 7, 2015

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023