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[Mountain Park from Mount Tom, Mt. Tom, Mass.] – Historic Print

[Mountain Park from Mount Tom, Mt. Tom, Mass.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Mountain Park from Mount Tom, Mt. Tom, Mass.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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[Mountain Park from Mount Tom, Mt. Tom, Mass.]

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Mountain Park, on the slopes of Mount Tom in western Massachusetts, was a trolley-served resort that drew day-trippers from the nearby mill city of Holyoke and the Pioneer Valley. This view looks out over the park and the river country below, with the Connecticut River valley as one of the features the photographer chose to frame. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative, sold views like it to tourists and collectors in the early 1900s, when railroads and trolleys were promoting scenic destinations. The record notes that this is only the center section of a larger panorama, so the full scene was wider than what survives here.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Originally left center section of a panorama; other sections not in collection. G 7367" and "LC" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039976. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Rivers.United States--Massachusetts--Tom, Mount.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69372

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