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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, millinery, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, millinery, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, millinery, 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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A window into the past: [Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, millinery, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, millinery, Detroit, Mich.]

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Few interiors from turn-of-the-century Detroit are as clearly documented as this view of the millinery trade at Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, a dry goods firm named in the record itself. Made on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate sometime between about 1905 and 1915, it captures a period when millinery was a major part of dry goods retail and women's hats were elaborate, carefully displayed goods. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the picture, documented American cities and their businesses in great numbers during these years, so the image preserves both a particular store and the commercial character of the city at the time.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043677. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDry goods stores. Hats. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70453

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