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[New Castle, N.H., parlor of the annex, Hotel Wentworth] – Historic Reproduction

[New Castle, N.H., parlor of the annex, Hotel Wentworth], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[New Castle, N.H., parlor of the annex, Hotel Wentworth], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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Step back in time with [New Castle, N.H., parlor of the annex, Hotel Wentworth], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New Castle, N.H., parlor of the annex, Hotel Wentworth]

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Few visitors to the Hotel Wentworth in New Castle, New Hampshire, would have walked into this annex parlor without expecting a view of the sea, yet this room looks inward, toward upholstered seating, tall windows, and the formal furnishings of a turn-of-the-century resort. The hotel sat on a rocky point at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor and became well known in 1905, when delegates to the Russo-Japanese peace conference were lodged there during their talks in nearby Portsmouth. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced this glass-plate negative between about 1900 and 1915, sold such views to promote hotels and rail travel, so the picture reflects how resorts presented their comfort to prospective guests.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043633. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Parlors. Resorts.United States--New Hampshire--New Castle.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70429

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