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[Offices of Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Offices of Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Offices of Mulford & Petry Co., 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 [Offices of Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Offices of Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich.]

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Interior views of working businesses are less common than street scenes from this period, which makes this glass negative of the offices of Mulford & Petry Co., an advertising agency, worth a closer look. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the view sometime between 1900 and 1910, was known for documenting the city's streets, buildings and industry, and its large 8 by 10 inch negatives recorded fine detail in rooms like this one. The desks, layout and furnishings offer a sense of how commercial workplaces were arranged in the early twentieth century, when advertising was growing into a major business in American cities.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043018. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOffices. Advertising agencies.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70017

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