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[The bathers] – Historic Reproduction

[The bathers], [between 1900 and 1912] — historic photograph
[The bathers], [between 1900 and 1912]. 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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Rather than a view of a place, this is a reproduction of a painting titled *The Bathers*, shot as a glass plate negative measuring 7 by 5 inches. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, photographed both landscapes and artworks so that its images could be printed as postcards, books, and albums. The title and date come from a 1912 Thistle Publications volume that used the company's work, so the picture likely served the same purpose of making a painting available to viewers who could not visit the original. Its glass plate format reflects the photographic technology of the period, when such negatives were the standard way to produce many copies.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1912]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesTitle and date from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 060047. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan629 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76926

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