Vintage Interiors

Thoughts on dating this one? (That's a real question - I don't have the answer.)

Detroit Photographic Company was launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s by Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingstone, Jr., and photographer and photo-publisher Edwin H. Husher. They obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss "Photochrom" process for converting black-and-white photographs into color images and printing them by photolithography. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market.

Late in 1897, Livingstone persuaded the accomplished American landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson, to join the firm. This added the thousands of negatives produced by Jackson to the Detroit Photographic Company's inventory. Jackson's collection included city and town views, images of prominent buildings, scenes along railroad lines, views of hotels and resorts, and the like.

The nation's strong interest in the 1898 Spanish-American War and the expansion of U.S. Naval power accounts for the firm's large inventory of many photographs of Cuba and scenes related to the war and for the hundreds of images of warships.

In the late 1890s, the Detroit Photographic Company expanded their inventory to include photographic copies of works of art, which were popular educational tools as well as inexpensive home decor.

The firm was known as the Detroit Photographic Co. until 1905 when it became the Detroit Publishing Company. William Henry Jackson became the plant manager in 1903, leaving him with less time to travel and take photographs. With the declining sale of photographs and postcards during World War I, and the introduction of new and cheaper printing methods used by competing firms, the Detroit Publishing Company went into receivership in 1924. They liquidated their assets in 1932.

Acquisition of the Collection
In 1939 Jackson gave the Detroit Publishing Company negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library later that year.

Photographers

The best known photographer represented in the Detroit Publishing Company is William Henry Jackson (1843-1942). He moved to Nebraska after the Civil War and was active in the West from about 1870 to about 1890. His photographs for the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories influenced the establishment of Yellowstone and other early national parks. In 1898 he became president of the Detroit Publishing Company, adding his stock of negatives to the company's files. He left the firm in 1924.

The Detroit Publishing Company collection includes negatives by many other photographers. During Jackson's era, photographers frequently purchased and sold negatives amongst themselves, with the current holder of the negative claiming authorship. In producing this electronic reference surrogate, an effort was made to recognize the role of individual photographers and companies represented in the Detroit Publishing Company. Information was gathered from various sources including the negative logbooks held at History Colorado External and information on the glass negatives themselves. Many negatives were attributed to William Henry Jackson based on these sources, as well as information listed in the Detroit Photographic Co.

Judging from the range I'd say about 1937. The elaborately colored cabinet ranges went out of fashion very quickly. They peaked in popularity in about 1935, and had just about disappeared from the market by 1940. This appears to be a Hazel Dell Brown kitchen design for Armstrong Linoleum.

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"The Arcade", in Cleveland, Ohio. This five level enclosed shopping street was a wonder in it's day. The design was by John Eisenmann, interior structure by the King Bridge Co. This photo shows the interior with it's original light standards ofo1890,before the replacements were installed in 1938.

I spent many happy days roaming this fascinating sturcture as a youth. It still survives, re-modelled into a Hyatt Regency hotel. The shops remain on the first two levels, but the offices on the upper three levels have all been converted into hotel suites which overlook this grand space. Here is a current picture of the space in it's current incarnation:



The bridge, with it's clock was added in 1912. The stair was sensitively re-configured in the 1939 remodelling.

That is a gorgeous looking arcade and thankfully Hyatt did the remodel right from the looks of it.

Mike

Cleveland is blessed with three landmark arcades within a block of each other . "The Arcade" of 1890, the "Colonial Arcade" of 1898, and the "Euclid Arcade", of 1911.
COLONIAL ARCADE IN 1906


COLONIAL ARCADE IN 2016



EUCLID ARCADE

Late 1930's ,early 1940's ?

^^^^^^drool city!!!!

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The exterior wasn't half bad, either!

^^^ It looks like Mr. Seaton had gas available for purchase there.

Don't know anything about it:

^^ I've seen those postcards on Pinterest. They are from a women working for you set. I think there's quite a few different scenes.

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^^ I've seen those postcards on Pinterest. They are from a women working for you set. I think there's quite a few different scenes.

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⇧ Cool, I missed your comment when you first posted it. Good info. I don't remember anymore where I even saw it, but I liked it.

⇩ This one comes from Esquire magazine in '42 and is about the man's outfit, but what caught my eye are the neat vintage architectural details - the radiator, hatrack, desk, chair and phone - and war posters!:

vitanola said:

Those stunning interiors were designed by Billy Haines. It must have been sheer magic yo live there in those days. You appear to be rather fond of the Waners. Were they kind employers?

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Billy Haines

HadleyH1 said:

1960s interiors ....the best

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That’s the set for Don Draper’s Manhattan apartment in Mad Men, really great design. I had just done my living room drapes before the show aired and picked out that same fabric so I was thrilled to see them on the show, I was like the cat that caught the canary ; )