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[Main canal and band-stand, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Main canal and band-stand, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Main canal and band-stand, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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 [Main canal and band-stand, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Main canal and band-stand, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.]

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Belle Isle, an island park in the Detroit River, is the setting here, and this view follows the main canal past a bandstand where concerts drew crowds on summer evenings. The city acquired the island in the late 1870s and hired landscape designers to shape its lagoons, drives and open lawns into a public retreat for city residents. This glass negative dates from roughly 1900 to 1910, when the Detroit Publishing Company was photographing the city and its parks for sale as views of American places. The camera captures the formal, leisurely character that made the island a popular place to stroll, sit by the water and listen to music.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033109. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCanals. Parks. Bandstands. Concerts.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66449

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