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[The Curtis Publishing Company Building and Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Curtis Publishing Company Building and Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[The Curtis Publishing Company Building and Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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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Step back in time with [The Curtis Publishing Company Building and Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few pictures in this set pair a modern commercial landmark with a national shrine as directly as this one does. The Curtis Publishing Company Building, home of *The Saturday Evening Post* and *Ladies' Home Journal*, rose in Philadelphia's Old City near Independence Hall, the site of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention. The contrast between the era's office architecture and the colonial-era statehouse says a good deal about the city at the turn of the twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative, which the Library of Congress holds, as part of its broad record of American towns and landmarks.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9133" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500686. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPublishing industry. Capitols. Office buildings.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74944

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