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[Detroit, Michigan, Temple Theatre auditorium] – Historic Reproduction

[Detroit, Michigan, Temple Theatre auditorium], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Detroit, Michigan, Temple Theatre auditorium], [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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The auditorium of the Temple theater in Detroit is the subject here, captured on an 11 by 14 inch glass plate negative, the large format favored for detailed architectural work. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this view around 1900 to 1905, sold many such images of American cities and their public buildings. Theater interiors of that era typically featured tiered balconies, ornate plasterwork, and rows of fixed seating, and a photograph like this records how a crowded commercial space was arranged before electric lighting and later renovations changed it.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 045126. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTheaters. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77862

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