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[The Pavilion, Gordon Park, Cleveland, Ohio] – Historic Reproduction

[The Pavilion, Gordon Park, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[The Pavilion, Gordon Park, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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 Pavilion, Gordon Park, Cleveland, Ohio]

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Gordon Park, a lakefront park on Cleveland's east side, is the setting here, and the record notes automobiles among the subjects, a sign of how quickly cars were reaching public parks in the years before 1915. The image is a glass dry plate negative, the kind of large-format plate photographers used to capture fine detail. It came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that recorded American towns, resorts, and scenic places in the decades around 1900. The pavilion and its surroundings offer a view of how leisure spaces looked during that transition.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8378" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500284. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSports & recreation facilities. Automobiles. Parks.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74687

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