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[Hiram Walker & Sons, reception room, Walkerville, Ont.] – Antique Wall Art

[Hiram Walker & Sons, reception room, Walkerville, Ont.], [between 1895 and 1899] — historic photograph
[Hiram Walker & Sons, reception room, Walkerville, Ont.], [between 1895 and 1899]. 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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A window into the past: [Hiram Walker & Sons, reception room, Walkerville, Ont.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A reception room at the Hiram Walker & Sons distillery in Walkerville, Ontario, is the subject of this view, which places the visitor's welcome space at the center of a company that became one of the largest distillers in North America. Hiram Walker founded the works across the river from Detroit in the 1850s, and by the late 1890s the firm was promoting itself with commercial views like this one. The Detroit Publishing Company made the 8 by 10 inch dry plate negative, a process that let photographers capture the interiors of businesses in fine detail. The picture is worth a look for its record of how an industrial firm presented itself to callers and buyers.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1899]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Walkerville book" on jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042181. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsReception rooms. Distilling industry.Canada--Ontario--Windsor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69507

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