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[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, restroom, third floor] – Antique Wall Art

[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, restroom, third floor], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, restroom, third floor], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Few pictures in this collection show the inside of a store's washroom, which makes this view of the third floor of the E.M. Bigsby Co. showrooms in Detroit unusual. The image dates from roughly 1900 to 1915, a period when department and clothing stores were promoting their interiors as places of comfort and refinement, and a well-kept restroom was one way to signal that. The Detroit Publishing Company made large glass-plate negatives like this one to document the city's commercial life, and the record notes that the negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4108" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043405. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBathrooms. Clothing stores.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70306

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