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[House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mass.] – Historic Reproduction

[House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mass.], [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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[House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mass.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mass.]

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The record names House of Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, a city then known for its manufacturing and its federal armory. This large 8 x 10 inch glass negative dates from roughly 1900 to 1910, when the Detroit Publishing Company was sending photographers across the United States to document towns, buildings and streetscapes. Glass plates like this one recorded fine architectural detail, so the hospital's façade and surroundings were captured with a clarity that smaller film could not match. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 4143" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034912. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHospitals.United States--Massachusetts--Springfield.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67711

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