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[Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room,Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room,Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room,Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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[Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room,Detroit, Mich.]

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The billiard room at the Buhl residence on Iroquois Avenue in Detroit is the detail that sets this view apart from the company's many street scenes and civic buildings. The record says the house may belong to Arthur Hiram Buhl, though that attribution is uncertain. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Detroit's growing fortunes, especially from manufacturing, paid for lavish interiors like this one, where billiards was a common pastime for wealthy households. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative for its catalog of American places, and it reached the State Historical Society of Colorado as a gift in 1949.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly Arthur Hiram Buhl (1978-1935) residence. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043671. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDwellings. Billiard rooms.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70446

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