THE ARCHIVE / Themes
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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First National Bank, Main and Fifth Streets, Seneca, Kansas
Bank (1889), Willa Cather History Center, up detail, Webster Street, Red Cloud, Nebraska
People's State Bank, a.m., Ship and State Streets, Saint Joseph, Michigan
First Federal Building, central vertical angle, Higgins Street, Missoula, Montana
First Federal Building, Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana
First Federal Building, upper corner detail, Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana
First Federal Building, entrance, Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana
Shelby County Bank, 6th and Market Streets, Harlan, Iowa
Shelby County Bank, corner detail, 6th and Market Streets, Harlan, Iowa
American Legion Building, Pine Street, Garden City, Kansas
Dom Polski, Saginaw Street, Flint, Michigan
100F Lodge, Odd Fellows, Decatur Avenue, Norcator, Kansas
Pythian Castle (1902), Bisbee, Arizona
Acacia Lodge, 586 Main Street, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Moose Building, 47 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
BPOE Elks Building, Broadway, Hannibal, Missouri
Masonic Temple, Pine Street, Pittsburg, Kansas
Masonic Temple, 6th Street, Seneca, Kansas
Masonic Temple, 6th Street, Seneca, Kansas
Masonic Temple (1920), door detail, Lassen Street, Susanville, California
Masonic Temple (1924), pediment detail, Lassen Street, Susanville, California
Masonic Temple (1924), pediment detail, Lassen Street, Susanville, California
Masonic Temple, Route 2, Skowhegan, Maine
