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[Bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.], [1902?] — historic photograph
[Bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.], [1902?]. 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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Step back in time with [Bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.]

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Inside a Detroit bindery of the Richmond & Backus Co., a stationery and bookbinding firm, this glass negative captures a workroom where paper goods and books were put together. The date is a cataloger's estimate of about 1902, when the Detroit Publishing Company was photographing the city's businesses and streets to sell as views. The plate reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. Look closely at the stacked stock and workbenches to see how bindery work was organized before heavy mechanization.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042764. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStationery trade. Interiors. Bookbinding.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69814

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