Our Local Real Estate Market, c. 1900 - 07/25/10 12:58 PM
A century before the Multiple Listing Service and Realtor.com, the best way for a prospective home buyer to find out what was for sale was to walk into a Realtor's shop and see what he had to sell. If he was lucky,he could look at a single black and white print from a 5 x 8 glass plate negative.Nathan Russell, a turn-of-the-century Realtor, photographed his listings from about 1890 until his death in 1917.  Many were newly constructed when he photographed them. When he died, the pictures remained in his house at 216 Ridgewood Avenue. The day before the demolition began … (2 comments)

 
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