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[New York City, interior E 2 (living room)] – Antique Print

[New York City, interior E 2 (living room)], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[New York City, interior E 2 (living room)], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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A window into the past: [New York City, interior E 2 (living room)], 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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[New York City, interior E 2 (living room)]

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Little is recorded about this room beyond its catalog label, "interior E 2," which suggests it belonged to a numbered series of domestic views. The Detroit Publishing Company sold photographs of American cities and landscapes to travelers and buyers in the early twentieth century, and its photographers often recorded everyday settings alongside monuments. Made on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate between about 1900 and 1910, the negative captures a New York living space from a period when interiors were far less commonly photographed than streets and skylines. Its furnishings and layout offer a glimpse of domestic life in the city at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043307. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsLiving rooms. Dwellings.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70231

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