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The Jade room, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York – Antique Print

The Jade room, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c1907. — historic photograph
The Jade room, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c1907.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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: The Jade room, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Jade room, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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The Jade Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the subject here, a glass-plate view of a gallery given over to carved jade objects. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that produced and sold photographs of American places and scenes around the turn of the twentieth century, made the negative around 1907. Its large 8 by 10 inch format captured fine detail in the room's cabinets and displays, and the image gives a sense of how the Met presented its Asian decorative arts in the early years of the museum's collection-building.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4409" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070014. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGalleries & museums. Interiors. Jade art objects.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71601

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