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The Parlor, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis. – Historic Reproduction

The Parlor, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
The Parlor, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis., [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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A window into the past: The Parlor, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, opened in 1893 by Guido Pfister, was among the city's most ornate hotels, and this view of its parlor shows the lavish interior that drew visitors in the early 1900s. The image is a glass dry plate negative, one of thousands made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American towns, hotels and scenery for postcards and travel books. Its catalog number and the dating to roughly 1900 to 1905 place it in the company's peak years of commercial photography, when such interiors were meant to show off a city's finest accommodations.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 042558. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Parlors.United States--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69708

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