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Sculpture, courtyard, and artifacts, Detroit Institute of Art [Detroit Museum of Art], Mich. – Historic Print

Sculpture, courtyard, and artifacts, Detroit Institute of Art [Detroit Museum of Art], Mich., [between 1920 and 1930] — historic photograph
Sculpture, courtyard, and artifacts, Detroit Institute of Art [Detroit Museum of Art], Mich., [between 1920 and 1930]. 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 standout in this set of four glass negatives is the sculpture the cataloger tentatively titled "The Laborer," a figure of a working man displayed within the museum. The other views record a museum courtyard, a group of antique chests and plaques, and a bust of a woman, and the subjects also include a deer. The building was then the Detroit Museum of Art, the institution now known as the Detroit Institute of Arts, which was expanding its holdings of sculpture and antiquities during these years. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented the city's civic and cultural spaces, made the set, though the record dates it only to the 1920s.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1930]
Medium4 negatives : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Contents: 1. The Laborer (?)" sculpture (D4-61314 A); 2. Museum courtyard (D4-61314 B); 3. Antique chests and plaques(D4-61314 C); 4. Bust of woman
SubjectsSculpture. Deer. Courtyards. Galleries & museums. Antiquities. Laborers.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 770 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70750

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