In Memoriam: Wystan
Ann Arbor: Looking EAST on Liberty Street from Main, c.1870.
A very slow exposure on a glass plate negative. Note the cloudlike white streak along the sidewalk at right -- a pedestrian in motion, walking too rapidly for his (or her) image to be immortalized. The block between Fourth and Fifth Avenues was originally designated "Jail Square" -- but never was occupied by a jail. Instead, we see it here as the site of Christian Schmid's "lumber yard" -- which is what the lettering on the narrow horizontal sign says. In the distance are fashionable houses on Fifth Avenue
Ann Arbor: Looking EAST on Liberty Street from Main, c.1870.
A very slow exposure on a glass plate negative. Note the cloudlike white streak along the sidewalk at right -- a pedestrian in motion, walking too rapidly for his (or her) image to be immortalized. The block between Fourth and Fifth Avenues was originally designated "Jail Square" -- but never was occupied by a jail. Instead, we see it here as the site of Christian Schmid's "lumber yard" -- which is what the lettering on the narrow horizontal sign says. In the distance are fashionable houses on Fifth Avenue