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[Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Detroit Opera House stands out in this view as one of the city's principal venues for touring opera, theater, and concerts in the years before 1910, when Detroit's population and wealth were growing quickly. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American cities and landscapes from the 1890s into the 1920s, made the photograph as a large glass negative, an 8 x 10 inch format that records fine architectural detail. Such plates were the standard medium for topographical work of this period, and the company's views were widely sold as postcards and prints.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033398. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOpera houses.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan785 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66674

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