Meridian Street, Thawing Weather

T. C. Steele, 1887
Painting depicting a woman walking down a tree-lined dirt path and holding a red umbrella.
Meridian Street, Thawing Weather, T. C. Steele, 1887

Steele’s painting reveals what North Meridian Street, the major north-south thoroughfare of the city, looked like in winter in the last decades of the 19th century.

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