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[Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, South Dakota] – Antique Wall Art

[Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, South Dakota], [between 1880 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, South Dakota], [between 1880 and 1920]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, South Dakota] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, South Dakota]

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The first thing to notice about this picture is its size and format: it is a mammoth-plate glass negative, roughly 18 by 22 inches, and it captures only the right half of a two-part panorama of the Evans Hotel in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large-format views of towns, resorts, and landmarks across the United States, catalogued the scene under panorama number 037604. Hot Springs, in the southern Black Hills, was known for its warm mineral springs and drew visitors seeking health cures in the decades around 1900, so a hotel there would have served a steady stream of guests. The two negatives in the collection are near-identical variants, and the set reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1920]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreMammoth plates.Panoramic photographs.Glass negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Duplicate film negative of version (B) was not made because of similarity to version (A). Title devised. Each negative forms right section of a two-part panorama, left section not in collection. 37604" and "2" on negative (A); "Detroit Photographic Co." and "37604 2" on negative (B). Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 037604. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--South Dakota--Hot Springs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80207

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