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[Interior of Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Interior of Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Interior of Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 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 [Interior of Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.], 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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[Interior of Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.]

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Few interior views of early Detroit theaters survive, which makes this glass negative of the Temple theater a useful record of a public space that otherwise lives on only in memory. The Detroit Publishing Company made its name in the years around 1900 by documenting American cities, landscapes, and buildings, and its large-format plates were often used for commercial promotion. Photographs like this one were taken before electric lighting and cinema reshaped the typical theater, so the arrangement of seating, balconies, and decorative plasterwork offers a look at how live performance halls were designed at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043059. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsTheaters. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70054

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