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[Cafe at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Cafe at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Cafe at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 and 1915]. 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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[Cafe at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The cafe at the Russell House, a Detroit hotel, offers a view into the public dining rooms that large hotels maintained for travelers and local residents alike. The picture is a dry plate glass negative, an 8 by 10 inch format that was standard for commercial photographers of the period. It was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views of American cities, resorts, and landmarks from roughly the 1890s into the 1920s. The company's catalog of views, of which this is one, documents how city life and commercial spaces were presented to the public in those decades.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042400. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Dining rooms.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69623

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