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Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y. – Antique Print

Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y., [between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y.

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The Lafayette Hotel was one of the larger hotels in Buffalo, New York, and this view records its street front during the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company made the picture, which was part of a large commercial effort to document American cities, towns, and landscapes for sale as postcards, booklets, and travel material. Two nearly identical 8 x 10 inch glass negatives survive, and the company's 1906 catalog helps place the image in that window. Hotels and their surrounding streets were common subjects for these views, since they showed the commercial life and traffic of a city at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). G 2404" on negative A; "G 2403" and "dup" on negative B. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017951. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Hotels.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61573

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