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[Detroit Publishing Company, 15 W. Thirty-eighth Street, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Photo Print

[Detroit Publishing Company, 15 W. Thirty-eighth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Detroit Publishing Company, 15 W. Thirty-eighth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 [Detroit Publishing Company, 15 W. Thirty-eighth Street, New York, N.Y.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Detroit Publishing Company, 15 W. Thirty-eighth Street, New York, N.Y.]

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Inside this New York showroom on West Thirty-eighth Street, reproductions of paintings hang alongside the company's other wares. The Detroit Publishing Company was founded in Detroit and built its reputation on photochrom prints, color reproductions that gave photographs a soft, painted look. This glass negative, made sometime between 1900 and 1915, records how a commercial print business presented its work to the public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Title on inner jacket: New York store. Includes photographic reproductions of paintings. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040401. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDetroit Publishing Co. Photographic studios. Showrooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 763 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69442

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