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[Richmond & Backus Co. office, Detroit] – Antique Print

[Richmond & Backus Co. office, Detroit], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Richmond & Backus Co. office, Detroit], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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 [Richmond & Backus Co. office, Detroit], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The building in this view housed the offices of Richmond & Backus Co., a Detroit firm in the stationery trade, which the cataloger's title and the subject heading both point to. The picture was made as a glass-plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented the city and the wider Midwest for commercial sale. Its notation "R & B Co. 286 special" suggests it was taken to fill a particular order. Such street-level views of working commercial buildings from the early 1900s show how Detroit's downtown business district looked as wholesale and office trades expanded.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Jacket title: R & B Co. 286 special" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 42089. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStationery trade. Commercial facilities. Streets.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan808 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69487

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