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[Douglas residence, bedroom with cheval glass, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Douglas residence, bedroom with cheval glass, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Douglas residence, bedroom with cheval glass, 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: [Douglas residence, bedroom with cheval glass, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Douglas residence, bedroom with cheval glass, Detroit, Mich.]

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Interior views of private homes were less typical of the Detroit Publishing Company's catalog, which leaned toward city streets, landscapes and resort scenes, so this view of the bedroom in the Douglas residence stands out. A cheval glass, the tilting freestanding mirror popular in Victorian and Edwardian bedrooms, sits in the room, and family portraits hang on the walls, offering a glimpse of everyday middle-class life before 1915. The company sold its photographs as commercial views and color prints, and this survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, a format it used for its professional work.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Family portraits on walls. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043500. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDwellings. Bedrooms.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 805 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70386

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