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[Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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The billiard room at the Hotel Utica, in Utica, New York, is the focus of this 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, which places the scene somewhere between 1905 and 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the negative, built its reputation on large-format views of American cities, resorts and commercial interiors in those years. Hotel billiard rooms were common social spaces for men in the period, so the picture offers a record of how leisure and public hospitality were arranged inside a middle-sized city hotel. Large glass negatives like this one capture fine detail in tables, lighting and furnishings.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9384" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043756. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Billiard rooms.United States--New York (State)--Utica.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70521

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