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[Window display, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Window display, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.], [1902?] — historic photograph
[Window display, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.], [1902?]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Window display, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Window display, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.]

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Passersby on a Detroit street in the early 1900s could have stopped at this window of the Richmond & Backus Co., where stationery goods were arranged for display behind the glass. Merchants used such arrangements to draw customers inside, and larger plate-glass storefronts were spreading through American commercial districts at the time. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented the city's streets and businesses around the turn of the century, made the glass dry-plate negative, which measures 8 by 10 inches. The catalog dates it to about 1902, a figure marked with a question mark because it is an estimate.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042745. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStationery. Window displays. Commercial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69796

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