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[Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.]

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A boiler room at the Glazier Stove Company in Chelsea, Michigan, is an unusual subject for a commercial photographer of this period, and it shows the machinery that kept the plant running. Chelsea, a small village about 15 miles west of Ann Arbor, was home to a stove works that made cast-iron heating and cooking stoves for buyers beyond the local area. The Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed towns, industries and scenery across the country, made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1910. Plates like this one preserve the working interiors of early American factories, where the boilers supplied the steam and heat that factory operations depended on.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042800. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStove industry. Industrial facilities. Interiors. Boilers.United States--Michigan--Chelsea.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan821 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69848

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