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Interior of Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich. – Antique Print

Interior of Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich., [1904] — historic photograph
Interior of Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich., [1904]. 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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This historic photograph of Interior of Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Interior of Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.

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The camera is pointed at the auditorium of the Detroit Opera House itself, not at its street front, which makes this a rare view of the hall's interior for the period. The negative is a mammoth glass plate, 18 by 22 inches, made by the Detroit Photographic Company, whose successor firm, the Detroit Publishing Company, sold views of American cities and landscapes around 1900. Large plates like this captured fine detail in tiers, balconies, and decorative plasterwork, which made them useful for showing a theater's architecture to readers and to the building's managers. The plate reached the Library of Congress by way of a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[1904]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreMammoth plates.Glass negatives.
NotesDetroit Photographic Co." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 046104. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOpera houses. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80222

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