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[Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh, Pa.] – Historic Reproduction

[Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Pittsburgh 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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[Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh, Pa.]

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Hotel Schenley stood in Oakland, on the edge of the Schenley Park land that Mary Schenley had given to the city, and its name came from that family. Opened in the late 1890s, the hotel served visitors to the nearby university and the Carnegie Institute, and it became one of Pittsburgh's grander addresses in the early 1900s. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which made views of American cities and landmarks for commercial distribution before 1915. The plate reached the Library of Congress as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, a reminder of how such views traveled far from where they were made.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6097" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039107. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68798

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