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[Saratoga, N.Y., veranda of United States Hotel] – Historic Reproduction

[Saratoga, N.Y., veranda of United States Hotel], [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Saratoga, N.Y., veranda of United States Hotel], [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Saratoga 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: [Saratoga, N.Y., veranda of United States Hotel], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The veranda of the United States Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, anchors this view, with its long run of porch space where summer guests could sit and watch the street. Saratoga drew wealthy visitors for its mineral springs and its racetrack, and large hotels like this one housed them for weeks at a time, with verandas serving as the social center of the day. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns and resorts for travel publications, made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between about 1890 and 1910. The porch remains a useful record of how resort life was organized around outdoor sitting space.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 2083" on negative. Sign on building: Division St. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 33573. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Porches. Resorts.United States--New York (State)--Saratoga Springs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66800

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