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[Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama] – Historic Print

[Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Mobile 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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This historic photograph of [Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama] brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama]

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The Hotel Bienville was named for Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the French colonial officer who founded Mobile in 1702, and this glass negative records the building as it stood in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sent photographers across the United States between about 1900 and 1915, produced the view. Its large 8 by 10 inch format captures architectural detail and street-level context that smaller prints often lose. The negative's catalog number and its 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado show how such plates moved between collections over time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7048" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039535. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--Alabama--Mobile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69192

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