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[Richmond and Backus Co. office, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Richmond and Backus Co. office, Detroit, Mich.], [1902?] — historic photograph
[Richmond and Backus Co. office, Detroit, Mich.], [1902?]. 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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A woman seated at a desk, pen in hand and possibly taking dictation, is the focus of this view of the Richmond and Backus Co. office in Detroit, a firm in the stationery trade. Offices like this one were filling with clerks and typists in the early 1900s, as correspondence and recordkeeping expanded along with American business. The glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company around 1902, a date the cataloger marked with a question mark, and the company's photographers documented the city's streets and businesses for wide circulation.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Woman writing, possibly taking dictation. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042749. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOffices. Office workers. Stationery trade. Commercial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69800

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