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[St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.] – Vintage Print

[St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Jacksonville 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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[St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[St. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.]

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Few details survive about the St. James Hotel itself, but the picture belongs to a period when Jacksonville was a major winter destination for northern travelers, and hotels like this one drew visitors arriving by rail. The image is an 8 x 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold large numbers of views of American towns, hotels and resorts to tourists around the turn of the 20th century. The "WHJ" inscription on the negative likely refers to William Henry Jackson, the photographer whose work the company distributed. Large-format negatives like this one were the source for the prints the firm sold.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. WHJ 133" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32481. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Resorts.United States--Florida--Jacksonville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66072

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