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[Art rooms of Detroit Photographic Co., general view, 231 Woodward Ave. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Art rooms of Detroit Photographic Co., general view, 231 Woodward Ave., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Art rooms of Detroit Photographic Co., general view, 231 Woodward Ave., [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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A window into the past: [Art rooms of Detroit Photographic Co., general view, 231 Woodward Ave., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Art rooms of Detroit Photographic Co., general view, 231 Woodward Ave.

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This view shows the art rooms of the Detroit Photographic Co. at 231 Woodward Avenue, a showroom setting rather than a street scene. The firm was known for photochrom prints, color reproductions made under a process licensed from a Swiss company, and its displays of finished work would have been aimed at customers and visitors. Two nearly identical 8 x 10 inch glass negatives record the room, dated somewhere between 1900 and 1905, when the company was building its catalog of American views. The pair shows how a commercial publisher arranged its work for the public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negatives are close variants. Dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042773. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDetroit Publishing Co. Showrooms. Photographic studios.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69821

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