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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, cloak and suit, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, cloak and suit, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, cloak and suit, 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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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, cloak and suit, Detroit, Mich.]

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Inside a Detroit dry goods store, a display of women's cloaks and suits is arranged around mannequins, a common way for department stores of the period to show off ready-to-wear clothing. The photograph records the firm of Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden between 1905 and 1915, a stretch when Detroit was growing rapidly as a retail and manufacturing center. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative, documented the city's streets, businesses and interiors on a large scale during these years. The view of the shop floor offers a glimpse of how fashionable outerwear was presented to customers in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043676. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDry goods stores. Mannequins. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70452

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