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[Edelweiss Cafe, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Edelweiss Cafe, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Edelweiss Cafe, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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: [Edelweiss Cafe, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Edelweiss Cafe, Detroit, Mich.]

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The name on the front, Edelweiss, is an Alpine flower, and a Detroit cafe carrying it before 1915 points to the city's large German community, which gave many of its commercial streets a Germanic character. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American cities and landscapes in the early 1900s and sold its views as postcards and prints. Because the format is large, the negative holds fine detail, so the storefronts and street around the cafe can still be read more than a century later.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043769. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsRestaurants. Streets.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70534

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