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[Stenographers' room, Mulford & Petry Co.] – Antique Wall Art

[Stenographers' room, Mulford & Petry Co.], [1904?] — historic photograph
[Stenographers' room, Mulford & Petry Co.], [1904?]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

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The stenographers' room at Mulford & Petry Co., a Detroit advertising agency, is a view of the inside of a working office, a subject less common in the Detroit Publishing Company files than street scenes and landscapes. The date is recorded only as a tentative 1904, but the setting fits a period when typewriters and women trained in shorthand were becoming a regular part of American business offices. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial photography firm, made this view as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative. Look at the arrangement of desks and work space, which shows how clerical labor was organized in offices of that era.

Created / published[1904?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043047. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsAdvertising agencies. Offices.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan814 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70044

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