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[Chester Park, the lake & club house, Cincinnati, Ohio] – Historic Print

[Chester Park, the lake & club house, Cincinnati, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Chester Park, the lake & club house, Cincinnati, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Cincinnati 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Chester Park, the lake & club house, Cincinnati, Ohio] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Chester Park's lake and clubhouse, shown here, was the centerpiece of one of Cincinnati's best-known turn-of-the-century amusement parks, a place where families came to rent rowboats and spend warm afternoons on the water. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued thousands of views of American resorts and cities in the early 1900s, made this glass-plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1915, when such parks drew large crowds by streetcar. Trolley lines carried city residents out to places like Chester Park for dances, picnics and boating, and the photograph captures the leisure culture that grew up around them.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5886" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039034. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAmusement parks. Rowboats. Lakes & ponds. Clubhouses.United States--Ohio--Cincinnati.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68737

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