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[State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1895 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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[State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.]

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The State Savings Bank in Detroit is shown through its interior, with a broad staircase rising as the central element of the view. The plate is one of the 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negatives made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American cities and commercial buildings from the 1890s into the 1920s. Banking halls of this era were often designed to project stability and civic pride, with stone, metal and carefully ordered space meant to reassure depositors. Dated between 1895 and 1910, the picture records how such institutions presented themselves at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042413. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBanks. Stairways. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69631

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