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Draper Hotel, Northampton, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art

Draper Hotel, Northampton, Mass., c1907. — historic photograph
Draper Hotel, Northampton, Mass., c1907.. 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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of Draper Hotel, Northampton, Mass.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Draper Hotel, Northampton, Mass.

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The Draper Hotel was a prominent lodging in Northampton, a Connecticut River Valley city and the seat of Hampshire County in western Massachusetts. This c1907 view survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold photographs and hand-colored prints of American towns, resorts and landmarks to tourists and merchants in the early 1900s. Hotels of this kind served travelers arriving by rail and visitors to the area's colleges, so the picture records a building that was central to the town's commercial life. The negative was later given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3798" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070911. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--Massachusetts--Northampton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72410

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