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[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, ground floor, main reception room] – Antique Wall Art

[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, ground floor, main reception room], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, ground floor, main reception room], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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: [E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, ground floor, main reception 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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This view shows the main reception room on the ground floor of the E.M. Bigsby Co., a Detroit clothing store, with its display space laid out for customers. It is an 8-by-10-inch glass dry plate negative, made sometime between 1900 and 1915 by the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American cities, businesses, and scenery in that era. Interior views like this one record how a turn-of-the-century retail showroom was arranged and presented to the public. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4101" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043398. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsReception rooms. Clothing stores.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan806 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70299

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