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Russell House, Detroit – Vintage Wall Art

Russell House, Detroit, [between 1880 and 1905] — historic photograph
Russell House, Detroit, [between 1880 and 1905]. 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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Step back in time with Russell House, Detroit, a historic photograph rich in period detail. 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 Russell House, a Detroit hotel, sits in view of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, which places this view in the city's downtown plaza area at Campus Martius. The monument honors Michigan men who served in the Civil War, a conflict that shaped Detroit's civic life in the decades after 1865. This glass dry plate negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities and streetscapes in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Its estimated date of 1880 to 1905 makes it a useful record of the downtown streetscape before the early twentieth century rebuilt much of it.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesIncludes Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 7314. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Monuments & memorials. Plazas. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 643 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76272

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