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[The Farm house] – Antique Wall Art

[The Farm house], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[The Farm house], [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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Few details survive about the people posed before The Farm house, but the title and the group arrangement point to a family or hired hands gathered at a rural homestead. The image is a dry plate glass negative, a format widely used around 1900 before flexible film became standard, and it carries a catalog number from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large output of American views. The State Historical Society of Colorado donated this negative in 1949.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreGroup portraits.Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 350" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042482. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69682

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