One of Hartford's residences – Vintage Wall Art
(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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One of Hartford's residences 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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One of Hartford's residences
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The negative itself is the most distinctive thing about this view: an 8 by 10 inch glass plate, cracked across the lower left corner, which the record places among the Detroit Publishing Company's work. The company, based in Detroit, photographed towns and cities across the country around 1900 to 1910, and its large-format glass negatives captured streets, buildings, and households with a level of detail that smaller cameras could not match. Hartford was then a prosperous insurance and manufacturing center, and its residential neighborhoods reflected that wealth in substantial houses set back on tree-lined lots. The plate's later donation to the Library of Congress in 1949 is a reminder of how such commercial archives moved between institutions over time.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Negative cracked from lower left corner. 216[...]" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018040. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Dwellings.United States--Connecticut--Hartford. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61650 |
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