[J.E. Upson] – Historic Print
![[J.E. Upson], [between 1908 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40213e360e6a-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures [J.E. Upson] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The only identifying detail this negative carries is the name J.E. Upson, and the cataloger devised even that title, so little is documented about who this subject was or what was happening in front of the camera. The plate belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company's numbered series, catalogued here as no. 16, from a firm that sold photographic views of American towns, landscapes and people to the public in the early twentieth century. Dating from between 1908 and 1920, it came to the Library of Congress in 1949 as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, and its 5-by-7-inch glass format was a common size for commercial photography of that period.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 16. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 718 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76175 |
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