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[Russell House, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Russell House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Russell House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Russell House, Detroit, Mich.], 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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[Russell House, Detroit, Mich.]

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The Russell House was a hotel in Detroit, and this view records the building as it stood in the decades before 1915, when hotels were central to the city's growing downtown trade. The negative is an 8 x 10 inch glass plate, the large format that Detroit Publishing Company photographers used for their architectural and street views. The company, run by William A. Livingstone and Edwin H. Husher, sold these scenes as prints and as hand-colored photochromes, so its images give a wide record of American cities at the turn of the century. The plate reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 279-S" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042096. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69490

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