1897 Print Nashville Market Union Church Street Scenes ORIGINAL HISTORIC IMAGE XMF1 Paul Railway meets the Columbia

Paul Railway meets the Columbia River

The actual border around the photogravure is larger than what is shown in the digital image

Light wrinkling

this position has been nicknamed Òthe CampbellÕs Soup position

This unique tonal range comes from photogravure's variable depth of etch--the shadows are etched many times deeper than the highlights unlike the halftone processes that merely vary dot size

1897 Print Nashville Market Union Church Street Scenes ORIGINAL HISTORIC IMAGE XMF1 Paul Railway meets the ColumbiaStreet Scenes in Nashville: Market Street, looking south; Union Street, looking east; Church Street, looking west. Period Paper has obtained a collection of images and advertisements of Nashville, Tennessee from 1897. These halftone prints and ads offer fascinating views of the city of Nashville as it appeared at the time of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial. This collection was issued in 1897 and was declared to be the official guide to the Centennial.