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[Hotel Utica, reception lobby, Utica, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Hotel Utica, reception lobby, Utica, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Hotel Utica, reception lobby, Utica, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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[Hotel Utica, reception lobby, Utica, N.Y.]

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The lobby of the Hotel Utica in Utica, New York, is the subject here, a rare indoor view in a collection better known for streets, rivers and mountain scenery. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, sold views like this to hotels, railroads and travel markets, and photographers working for it often used large glass plate negatives, such as this 8 x 10 inch example, to capture fine detail. Dating from between 1905 and 1915, the picture shows the public face a hotel presented to travelers of that era, with its furnishings and open floor plan offering a sense of how such rooms were arranged before the hotel boom of the 1920s changed the form.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9388" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043761. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Lobbies.United States--New York (State)--Utica.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70526

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