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Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N.Y. – Vintage Print

Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N.Y., [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N.Y., [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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 rare historic photograph captures Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N.Y. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N.Y.

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The Hotel Seneca in Rochester, New York, is the subject here, a downtown hotel photographed in the years between 1905 and 1920. The view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that made large numbers of city views, hotels, and landscapes across the United States in that period. Rochester was then a fast-growing industrial city, home to firms such as Eastman Kodak, so a picture of its hotel captures the commercial life of the city as well as its architecture. The glass negative, an 8 by 10 inch plate, was later given to the Library of Congress through the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 5662" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036858. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--New York (State)--Rochester.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68190

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