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[Wayne Hotel pavilion, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Wayne Hotel pavilion, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Wayne Hotel pavilion, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Wayne Hotel pavilion, Detroit, Mich.]

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A sign advertising Belle Isle Park steamers every 20 minutes marks this view of the Wayne Hotel pavilion and its wharf on the Detroit waterfront. Steamboats carried day-trippers from the city's riverfront to Belle Isle, the island park in the Detroit River that had been developed as a public recreation ground in the late nineteenth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views of American cities and resorts in the early twentieth century, made the large glass negative, and the picture shows how the riverfront served as a gateway to summer leisure before the automobile reshaped such outings.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Sign: Belle Isle Park steamers every 20 minutes. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042019. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPavilions. Hotels. Piers & wharves.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69450

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