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[Charles Scribner's & Sons, rugs] – Historic Reproduction

[Charles Scribner's & Sons, rugs], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Charles Scribner's & Sons, rugs], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Charles Scribner's & Sons, rugs] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This 8 x 10 inch glass negative is a studio record of rugs, made under the title "Charles Scribner's & Sons," which points to the New York publishing house as the intended client. The catalog note suggests it may have been produced for a Scribner's book, so the rugs were probably photographed to be reproduced as printed illustrations. Commercial work like this was a regular part of the Detroit Publishing Company's business in the years before 1910, when the firm sold photographs and photochrom prints. The plate shows how much care went into making an object look clear enough to reproduce in print.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly for a book by Charles Scribner's Sons. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042394. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69620

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