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Pringle Furniture [Co. interior with Mission chairs, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

Pringle Furniture [Co. interior with Mission chairs, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Pringle Furniture [Co. interior with Mission chairs, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1920]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pringle Furniture [Co. interior with Mission chairs, Detroit, Mich.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pringle Furniture [Co. interior with Mission chairs, Detroit, Mich.]

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Mission-style oak chairs fill the sales floor of the Pringle Furniture Company in Detroit, a store interior captured on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued this view as number 1146, operated from the 1890s into the 1920s and documented the city's streets, businesses, and industries for commercial sale. Mission furniture, with its plain, square-lined oak frames, grew popular in the early 1900s as part of the Arts and Crafts movement, and a showroom like this one shows how retailers displayed the style to shoppers of the period. The title was partly supplied by the cataloger, and the negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle partially devised by cataloger. 354-T" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 1146. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFurniture stores. Chairs.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76105

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