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[Hardware, Crooks & Brooker, Adelaide, Australia] – Historic Reproduction

[Hardware, Crooks & Brooker, Adelaide, Australia], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Hardware, Crooks & Brooker, Adelaide, Australia], [between 1895 and 1910]. 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 [Hardware, Crooks & Brooker, Adelaide, Australia] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Hardware, Crooks & Brooker, Adelaide, Australia]

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Unlike the street-front views common on this board, this photograph looks inward at the working interior of Crooks & Brooker, a hardware business in Adelaide, South Australia. The negative's jacket states that it was made for the National Cash Register Company, and the registers visible among the counters suggest the purpose: the firm wanted pictures of its machines in real retail use. Detroit Publishing Company, which issued large numbers of views of towns and businesses between about 1895 and 1910, made the image on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate. Worth noticing are the goods stacked high along the shelves, which show how much stock a shop of this kind kept within a clerk's reach.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Made especially for the National Cash Register Company" on jacket. "44" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043114. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHardware stores. Interiors. Cash registers.Australia--South Australia--Adelaide.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70107

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