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[Sheba eating out of children's hand] – Historic Reproduction

[Sheba eating out of children's hand], [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
[Sheba eating out of children's hand], [between 1915 and 1925]. 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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A window into the past: [Sheba eating out of children's hand], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A glass negative titled *Sheba Eating Out of Children's Hand* shows a named animal taking food from young visitors, which suggests a zoo setting in Detroit, Michigan, though the record only says "possibly." The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, produced many views of American cities, parks, and attractions like this one. Its large-format glass plates recorded everyday public life and leisure in the years before the 1920s, and this one came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly at a zoo in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2441. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 666 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77240

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