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[Interior of 234 Fifth Avenue, Detroit Publishing Co., New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Interior of 234 Fifth Avenue, Detroit Publishing Co., New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Interior of 234 Fifth Avenue, Detroit Publishing Co., New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Rather than a street or landmark, this view shows the inside of a showroom at 234 Fifth Avenue in New York, the city office of the Detroit Publishing Company. The firm, renamed from the Detroit Photographic Company in 1905, sold color prints made by the photochrom process, which reproduced American scenery, cities and resorts. A Manhattan office gave the company a place to show its wares to dealers and buyers. Because the image is a glass negative, its detail of shelving and display arrangement offers a useful look at how a commercial space of that era was organized.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 318" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043502. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDetroit Publishing Co. Photographic studios. Showrooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70388

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