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Vested choir, St. Mary's Mission, [Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

Vested choir, St. Mary's Mission, [Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Vested choir, St. Mary's Mission, [Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: Vested choir, St. Mary's Mission, [Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Vested choir, St. Mary's Mission, [Detroit, Mich.]

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Rows of choristers in vestments stand arranged inside St. Mary's Mission in Detroit, and the robes and formal grouping mark this as a posed portrait of a church choir rather than a candid moment. Vested choirs, with their surplices and cassocks, were a familiar part of worship in many churches in this period, and a group like this would have represented the mission congregation to visitors and neighbors. The picture is one of the Detroit Publishing Company's views, made by a commercial firm that photographed churches, streets and civic life in Detroit and beyond around 1900 to 1910. Its large glass negative preserves fine detail in the interior and in the faces of the singers.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesPart of title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043285. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsSinging. Churches. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 807 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70214

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