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[Detroit Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City] – Historic Photograph Print

[Detroit Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Detroit Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City], [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Detroit Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

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Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is the setting, and the storefront at number 229 belonged to the Detroit Photographic Company, which used the space to show its views to buyers. The Detroit firm sold landscapes and city scenes as tinted photochrom prints, a Swiss color process it held the American rights to around the turn of the century. This 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative, dated between 1900 and 1905, records the showroom where that trade took place. The Library of Congress received it in 1949 as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043212. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDetroit Publishing Co. Photographic studios. Showrooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70176

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