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Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill. – Antique Print

Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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A window into the past: Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.

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The conservatory in Washington Park, on Chicago's South Side, anchors this view of the park's glasshouse. The park was laid out in the 1870s by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and its greenhouses were meant to grow and display plants for visitors. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, sold views like this one to travel promoters and railroads, so its glass negatives document how American cities presented themselves. The record suggests Hans Behm may have made the picture, which dates from between 1900 and 1910.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesPossibly by Hans Behm. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070180. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsParks. Greenhouses.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71765

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