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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
1,569 photographs
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El Rancho Theater, Pine Street, Deming, New Mexico

Cavern Theater, N. Canyon Avenue, Carlsbad, New Mexico

Riviera Theater, angle 1, E. 3rd Street, Muscatine, Iowa

Riviera Theater, angle 2, E. 3rd Street, Muscatine, Iowa

Clarion Theater, 2nd Street, NW, Clarion, Iowa

Strand Theater (soda fountain), S. Federal Avenue, Mason City, Iowa

Royal Theater, Central Avenue, Le Mars, Iowa

Strand Theater, North End Hotel, Ocean Grove, New Jersey

Strand Theater, angle 1, Boardwalk, Wildwood, New Jersey

Strand Theater, angle 2, Boardwalk, Wildwood, New Jersey

Colonial Theater, angle 1, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Colonial Theater, angle 2, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Surf Theater, angle 1, Boardwalk, Ocean City, New Jersey

Surf Theater, angle 2, Boardwalk, Ocean City, New Jersey

Moorlyn Theater, Boardwalk, Ocean City, New Jersey

Swetish Building, Bannack Street, Dillon, Montana

Beacon Laundry, Culver City, California
![Bisesi Building (1912), W. 2nd Street [i.e. 413-415 East Second Street], Muscatine, Iowa](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/01000/01054v.jpg)
Bisesi Building (1912), W. 2nd Street [i.e. 413-415 East Second Street], Muscatine, Iowa
![Bisesi Building (1912), horizontal detail, W. 2nd Street [i.e. 413-415 East Second Street], Muscatine, Iowa](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/01000/01055r.jpg)
Bisesi Building (1912), horizontal detail, W. 2nd Street [i.e. 413-415 East Second Street], Muscatine, Iowa

Golden Rule storefront, Federal Avenue, Mason City, Iowa

Two Stores (1886 &1892), straight on view, Second Street, Ida Grove, Iowa

Two Stores (1886 & 1892), angle view, Second Street, Ida Grove, Iowa

Two Stores (1886 & 1892), upper view, Second Street, Ida Grove, Iowa
