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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, first floor from front, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, first floor from front, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, first floor from front, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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 [Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, first floor from front, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, first floor from front, Detroit, Mich.]

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This view looks down the first floor of Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, a Detroit dry goods business, photographed from the front of the store. The image survives as a pair of 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negatives, two variants of the same scene, made for the Detroit Publishing Company between about 1905 and 1915. Interior views like this one record how large commercial floors were arranged in the early twentieth century, when dry goods houses sold cloth, notions and household textiles in crowded, open rooms. The company's wide-ranging work on American cities makes such street-level and shop-floor photographs a useful record of Detroit's commercial life.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Bur [Burridge] 263" on A negative; "B 263 dup" on B negative. Negatives are variants. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043680. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDry goods stores. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70456

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