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[Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn.] – Vintage Print

[Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New Haven 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn.]

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The Tontine Hotel took its name from the financing scheme behind it, a tontine in which subscribers shared the income until the last surviving investor claimed the whole. Built in New Haven's downtown in the late eighteenth century, the hotel was a fixture for travelers and local society for generations. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative was made between 1900 and 1915 by the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns, streets, and landmarks for sale as postcards and photochrom prints. Notes on the negative, including the Detroit company number, record its later gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 3936" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039349. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--Connecticut--New Haven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69024

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