Department Store - Haberdashery Department 1912 - Side by Side Art Print

Hand colored photo from 1912
Original Title: Elliott Taylor Woolfenden, First floor
Photographer: Detroit publishing
Location: 2473-2481 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mi (orig address 1-37 Henry St)

This one had a lot more detail than I thought, it had more detail than most typical city scenes. It's incredible to think that a camera from over a hundred years ago could capture the detail it did. I've made this department store a number of times, from different viewpoints and floors. This one in fact I made already, but its from the front to the back. This is from the back to the front, only it's a different year. So nothing lined up from the one I made already.

This store is packed to the brim with stuff. I can't even ID most of it. I see brushes, combs, a ton of fabric, ribbons, lace, and mostly stuff you would find in a medicine cabinet. A bunch of Jesus frames, stuff that comes with frames, lots of boxes.

Those things that look like cash registers, were act...

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