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Syce – Vintage Print

Syce, 1897 July 7. — historic photograph
Syce, 1897 July 7.. 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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Titled "Syce," a word borrowed from British India for a horse groom or stable attendant, this glass negative is less a portrait of a single event than a record of the working people who kept horses in the 1890s. The date, July 7, 1897, and the notation "Riverside" on the plate point to a likely Riverside Yacht Club setting, though the attribution rests on style and numbering rather than a signed record. The negative belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely and whose large-format plates captured American places and everyday scenes in the decades around 1900. It came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published1897 July 7.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution based on style of title and numbering. 573" and "Riverside" on negative. Probably Riverside Yacht Club. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71266

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